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...resolution denouncing him as a traitor and citing his application to emigrate to "a country hostile to the Soviet Union and to our Arab friends. "Kats wrote a letter of protest to the president of the Academy of Sciences, quoting the provision of the Helsinki Final Act, signed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1975, which stipulates that a person who has applied to emigrate shall not be subject to changes in rights or duties. The Academy of Sciences responded to Kat's letter by pressuring the Physics of the Earth Institute to annul the resolution on the grounds that...
...there is a sense that American policy has recently been reactive to Moscow initiatives. Only three months after your talk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, when you declared that Poland cast a long and dark shadow over East-West relations, there is talk about a summit with President Leonid Brezhnev and a rush to engage in arms-control talks...
...continued, the Soviets had successfully stirred up a new whirlpool of undemocratic instability, slowly but steadily pulling neighboring countries into an ever-growing chasm. Once Reagan saw Nicaragua as a member of the global communist monolith. U.S. policy became little more than our attempt to prevent Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev from getting the maniacal last laugh...
Moscow has been quick to take advantage of Schmidt's problems. Last month President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the Soviet Union had frozen its deployment of SS-20s, urging NATO to reverse its 1979 decision. President Reagan refused, arguing that a freeze would preserve the Soviet advantage...
Ever since reports circulated late last month that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev had been hospitalized following a four-day trip to Tashkent, rumors have been rife that he was gravely ill and possibly dying. Soviet officials maintained, however, that Brezhnev, 75, who has a history of cardiovascular ailments, was simply taking his annual April vacation and resting at his country home outside of Moscow. As of last week Brezhnev had made no public appearances for three weeks, but there were signs that he was carrying on at least some of his official duties...