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...dialogue." Haig, mindful of appearing soft on the issue of Polish repression, de-emphasized the talks by saying he would attend only one day of meetings, not the planned two. He also told aides that he would deflect questions of a summit meeting soon between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and would resist efforts by Gromyko to bargain toward the Soviets' key objective, a date for reopening general strategic arms talks (START). Instead, said an aide to Haig, the Secretary would deal almost exclusively with "Poland and the whole range of Soviet activities detrimental to our interests...
...session was not without tensions. Chain-smoking throughout the meeting, Schmidt appeared on the defensive. He claimed that the American press had misrepresented the West German view of the Soviet role in the Polish crackdown, and noted that a letter he had sent to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last month was proof that Bonn believed in Moscow's involvement. "If one read only American newspapers," he told Reagan, "you would think the U.S.-German alliance was dead." But Schmidt also made clear that he did not think the sanctions against Moscow would work, and thus he did not plan...
...news was bitterly received by Pasternak's family. Yevgeni Pasternak, a member of the research staff of the Institute of Literature, and his sister-in-law Natalya Pasternak, the widow of the author's other son Leonid, do not live in the house, but they have diligently kept it in repair and conducted tours for visitors. Everything has been preserved just as it was when Pasternak was living. Among the keepsakes: the piano where the noted Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter played all through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka...
...measures against the military regime in Poland two weeks ago, he warned that he held the Soviet Union responsible for the crisis and that "business as usual," as he put it, could not go on with the Soviets. He said he had sent a strong letter of protest to Leonid Brezhnev. Reagan's resolve quickened after he received the Soviet President's response on Christmas Day. Though the exact contents of Brezhnev's letter have not been divulged, Reagan publicly described the note as "negative" and told one aide that it offered "no encouragement...
...been careful to discourage "Bona-partism," that is, the military's usurpation of political power. Nonetheless, the civilian leadership headed by President Leonid Brezhnev (who is, like Stalin, a Marshal) has been extraordinarily accommodating to the armed forces' voracious demands on national resources...