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...adventurism may well become more dangerous when the aging leaders of the Kremlin are succeeded by a new generation that has known only expanding power. At a private dinner celebrating his confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State, Haig told friends, "Every night I pray that [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev stays healthy and alive for a good while to come-at least until we have caught up with the Soviet Union. Because if he goes suddenly, I believe that the young ones waiting in the wings will take over. They have never known war; to them, Stalingrad...
...Polish affairs since the outbreak of labor unrest eight months ago. The communique said that the Soviets expected their Polish comrades "to reverse the course of events and liquidate the perils looming over the socialist gains of the nation." The participants in the minisummit, which was presided over by Leonid Brezhnev and attended by five Soviet Politburo members, also declared the "defense" of socialism to be "a matter not only for every single state but for the entire socialist community as well...
...When Leonid Brezhnev summoned his Polish comrades to Moscow last week he must have been feeling especially sure of himself; the 26th Soviet Communist Party congress had just finished showering him with glory. Through session after session, Brezhnev had listened impassively to a stream of eulogies on his wisdom, his leadership, his "tireless" struggles for peace. Then after eight days it was over, and Brezhnev stepped to the podium last week to bring the congress to a close. Looking relatively vigorous and speaking forcefully, though with his usual slur, the 74-year-old leader announced his election as party chief...
...Soviet counterpart is Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the Central Committee's International Information Department. He is a former director of TASS who operates under the guidance of the party's longtime chief ideologist, Mikhail Suslov. TASS serves as the backbone of Soviet propaganda. The bluntness of TASS's bias often works against it. For example, the Soviets in 1963 provided, free of charge, equipment for receiving TASS bulletins to the fledgling Kenyan news agency. The Kenyans, however, soon started using the equipment to receive Britain's Reuters wire service as well. A former Kenyan journalist says...
...Leonid Brezhnev had been speaking a mere seven minutes-before live television cameras-at the opening session of the 26th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. Characteristically, the ailing, 74-year-old leader had limped to the podium, and his diction was slurred. Then the television image suddenly switched from the meeting to a studio announcer, who read the remaining 3½ hours of Brezhnev's text. The unsettling cut appeared to be an attempt to draw attention away from the Soviet leader's infirmities, but it had the opposite effect. For a time, in fact, it obscured...