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What a pity you did not wait just a little longer to make your Man of the Year award. You could easily have chosen that friendly, honest and trustworthy Soviet fellow who ordered the invasion of Afghanistan, Leonid Brezhnev...
...compassion?to break his own campaign promise and cut off the golden flow of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. But at the same time he was filled with rage and frustration at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and particularly by what he felt was Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's lying justification of it. He stalked around the White House, bristling with anger. "Because of the way that I've handled Iran, they think I don't have the guts to do anything," he told one aide. "You're going to be amazed at how tough I'm going...
...filled with articulate and forceful Republicans, television's insistent commentators and an audience that considered itself part of the action, not mere spectators. A lot of those farmers came to the rallies with their FM radios tuned to hear Chicago commodity markets and news about Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. For Ted Kennedy, winning attention, let alone devotion, is a job bigger than that faced by his brothers...
...though a time warp had plunged the world back into an earlier and more dangerous era. Soviet divisions had swarmed across the border of a neighboring country and turned it into a new satellite. Moscow and Washington were exchanging very angry words. Jimmy Carter accused Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev of lying, and the Soviets' TASS press agency shot back that Carter's statements were "bellicose and wicked." For Carter, the rapid series of events in Afghanistan seemed to provide a remarkable kind of revelation. Said he, sounding strikingly naive in an ABC television interview: "My opinion...
...would not prevent the Soviets from acting aggressively to maintain what they regard as their national interests. Other hard-liners within the Administration argue that the U.S.S.R. has repeatedly violated detente's main charter, the "Basic Principles of Relations" between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at their Moscow summit in May of 1972. This communique stated that the two superpowers "will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations" and that "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense...