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Talbott does not have access to the Politburo and their advisors: he can't discover the process by which they determine their opening positions or even faithfully describe their forces, since no one really knows what they have. America's open approach to the nuclear negotiating table allowed Talbott to write the best nuclear handbook for the layman, to conduct the most exhaustive research available on the nuclear negotiating process, and to one-sidedly trash the Reagan Administration's approach. This mixture of good information and slanted analysis makes Deadly Gambits worthless, and even dangerous, as a guideline...
...change much with age," said Dr. T Franklin Williams, director of the National Institute on Aging. "Many people in their 80s and 90s are quite capable of being President." Gerontologists point out that China is vigorously run by Deng Xiaoping, 80, and that half the members of the Soviet Politburo are over...
...aging men of the Politburo may have seen Reagan, robust both physically and politically right now, as some kind of threat. Reagan listened and watched Gromyko as he had rarely scrutinized a man before; looking for clues from words, from eyes, from a touch or handclasp...
With fine political acumen, Deng, the senior member of China's Politburo and chairman of the Central Military Commission, identified himself wholly with the P.L.A. during the solemn day of rehabilitation. After reviewing the assembled troops, he mounted a rostrum to deliver an eight-minute speech that made it clear that China is proud of itself these days. Said he: "The whole country has taken on a new look. .. Today our people are full of joy and pride." Noting the initialing only a week earlier of an agreement with Britain under which the Crown Colony of Hong Kong will...
Part of the dead weight on the Politburo is the remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...