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Listening impassively nearby was Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who commanded most attention among the visiting dignitaries. In a surprise move, Brezhnev decided to attend the funeral at the head of a phalanx of East European delegations. For the Soviets, Tito suddenly appeared to have attained a saintliness he had never enjoyed when alive...
...would be too distracted to engage in significant talks; moreover, it would not look good to American voters for the President to be flying overseas when he has barely begun to travel at home for the first time in six months. When Moscow announced at the last minute that Leonid Brezhnev would attend, it was too late for Carter to change course without looking even more indecisive...
...Chief Nikita Khrushchev partly made up for the animosities of the Stalin era by flying to the Yugoslav capital. There, after an apparently amicable meeting with Tito, he publicly acknowledged that "different forms of socialist development are solely the concern of individual [Communist] countries." Tito's relationship with Leonid Brezhnev was edgy but cordial...
Thatcher flinches from no one. She has shaken a fist at Leonid Brezhnev, warning him against Soviet expansionism. She has served an ultimatum on her partners on the Continent, protesting the unfair financial burden imposed on Britain by the European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...
Lord Killanin, International Olympic Committee president, seeking talks with Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev to head off a Moscow boycott: "I can't make peace, but I can't make the situation any worse...