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...have some answers for Soviet Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin and his critique of American-Soviet relations [Dec. 8]. If he wants peace, then stop butchering Afghans. If he wants self-determination, then leave Poland alone. If he wants human dignity, then allow freedom of speech. If he wants détente, then act responsibly and cease helping terrorists. Talk is cheap. Actions show that the Soviet government is a brutal, repressive warmonger...
...grim, but one has to peer hard to find elevating moments in 1980. Only Lech Walesa's stark heroism in Poland sent anything resembling a thrill into the world. The national strike he led showed up Communism as a failure?a thing not done in the Warsaw Pact countries. Leonid Brezhnev, a different sort of strongman, had to send troops to Poland's borders, in case that country, like Czechoslovakia and Hungary before it, should prove in need of "liberation...
...Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who turned 74 on Dec. 19, almost seemed to draw strength from a very bad year. It began with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and ended with the threat of an invasion of Poland. In between came a plague of humiliations: outpourings of international protest over Afghanistan; a partial boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games; reports of brief but ominous incidents of labor unrest in Soviet factories; the second disastrous harvest in a row; new tensions with China; the collapse (at least temporarily) of arms control negotiations with the West; the election of a new American...
Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...
...with Soviet troops still poised on the frontier, even the militants do not want to change the union's conciliatory course-at least just yet. At week's end, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev met with Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek in Moscow. While expressing confidence that the Polish party could solve the country's internal difficulties, the two leaders assailed "attempts of imperialist and other reactionary circles" to undermine socialist Poland. For the restive militants, it was a grim reminder of the limits of Soviet tolerance...