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Part of the game of poker is knowing when to quit. What we have now is hyped-up publicity aimed at winning over the Europeans. Our Government should stop playing and start dealing with the reality of a nuclear nightmare...
...people of Western Europe compel the U.S. to play nuclear poker with a stacked deck, we ought to toss in our hand and walk out, taking our rockets, our aircraft, our tanks and our military personnel with...
Andropov's performance to date has demonstrated that the West may be dealing with a new type of Soviet leader?a poker player who handles his cards with subtlety and prestidigitation. He has been remarkably quick and shrewd in taking advantage of openings that circumstance, allied anxieties and American missteps have given him. Brezhnev was in office for a number of years before he had the confidence and the backing within the collective leadership to assume a forceful, prominent role in foreign policy. In the European nuclear debate, Brezhnev attempted a number of personal, high-visibility ploys to head...
...Social Security system "not only had the potential of destroying this Administration, but the entire party." Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a member of the commission, praised Baker as "a superb staff man." Says an aide to Republican Senate leaders admiringly: "Baker is a master poker player. He never shows his cards-and he wins...
DIED. Leonid Kogan, 58, slight "aristocrat of the violin," cherished by worldwide audiences for his poker-face pyrotechnics and the silken refinement of his playing; of causes and in a location not announced by Soviet officials. A prodigy who burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...