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...from January 1973 until the spectacular collapse of the Nixon Administration less than 19 months later. Next week's third and final installment will recount the increasingly acrimonious debate over detente as Watergate began to drain authority from the U.S. presidency and Kissinger's dramatic encounters with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung, the men who were guiding the destinies of America's principal adversaries...
...Kremlin succession: The Soviet Union is in deep crisis. Its economy is in serious trouble. Soviet power is overextended globally, and there is mounting disaffection among diverse social and ethnic groups. When [President Leonid] Brezhnev goes, his successors will face two choices. They can keep making outlandish appropriations for defense and engaging in global adventures, or they can face up to their internal problems, turning away from military expansionism toward reform of the domestic system. Russia has experienced throughout its history periods when the government had to turn inward to cope with its problems. The idea that the greatness...
...well as the current Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; and tells of the dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...
...staged before some 300 representatives from 35 countries, reassembled at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to review the 1975 Helsinki accords for the first time since martial law was declared in Poland last Dec. 13. The speeches were too much for Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid Ilyichev. Said he: "We resolutely oppose the efforts forts of of the the NATO bloc, and of of the U.S. in particular, to put on yet another political farce." The torrent of Western condemnation, interrupted only sporadically by East bloc protests, continued for 4½ hours before the hapless presiding chairman...
...made his final television appearance last December, the image that flashed on Soviet screens was a veritable icon of the Kremlin's masters. In an arresting gesture that symbolized 17 years of shared power, the lanky, 6-ft.-tall Suslov, 79, bent down to bestow a kiss on Leonid Brezhnev, who was celebrating his 75th birthday. Brezhnev will sorely miss such accolades, both ceremonial and substantive. Suslov's death last week from a stroke deprived Brezhnev of his most influential ally in the Soviet Union's ruling collective leadership. Observed one Moscow diplomat: "A pillar has been...