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...Kissinger's mission was a complete failure," crowed the official Communist Party newspaper Pravda last week, quoting stories in American newspapers to support that evidently gratifying conclusion. There was indeed cause for some smugness in the Kremlin. As a result of the breakdown of U.S. mediation efforts, the U.S.S.R. stood to gain in prestige, influence and possible strategic advantage in the Middle East. Long outshone and outmaneuvered by Kissinger's diplomatic initiatives, and locked out of vital negotiations since the suspension of the 1973 Geneva Conference, the Soviet Union now has a better chance than ever before...
...amiss, Soviet diplomats conceded privately that Brezhnev was suffering from pneumonia and recuperating in a dacha outside Moscow. They expressed confidence, however, that he would recover sufficiently to receive British Prime Minister Harold Wilson on his scheduled state visit to Moscow in mid-February. Meanwhile, the official party newspaper Pravda referred frequently and reverently to Brezhnev, as if to underscore his political wellbeing...
...wire services around the world. Standing alone, the statement almost seemed as if Kissinger were already mobilizing troops. The reaction was immediate, emotional and sharply negative. "A colonialist enterprise doomed to failure," thundered Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, reacting to his own reading of the Kissinger statement. "Gunboat policies," ridiculed Pravda. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat warned that the oil-producing Arab nations would blow up their wells rather than let them be seized by U.S. forces. Rome worried that American intervention might risk nuclear war with the Soviets. In London, political leaders of all parties were privately troubled...
Solzhenitsyn's allegation that The Quiet Don is mostly the work of an anti-Communist brings into the open a long-smoldering rumor that Sholokhov is a plagiarist. Reports that Sholokhov had plagiarized the novel were so widespread in 1929 that Pravda threatened to prosecute the "malicious slanderers." When Stalin later declared Sholokhov to be "the great writer of our tune," any discussion of the novel's true authorship became extremely dangerous. But the controversy would not die. In 1967 Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky publicly recited an unpublished poem in Moscow that clearly alluded to Sholokhov...
...possible link between the pattern of crimes and the rising standard of living in the Soviet Union has not been overlooked. Writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communist), Political Scientist Vladimir Kudryavtsev noted that "one occasionally hears that once a society has achieved affluence, crimes for gain disappear. However, as Aristotle observed, greed can also be engendered by prosperity. When examining the motives of crime for gain, we cannot automatically attribute them exclusively to relics of the past. Today, a number of 'accretions of the present,' so to speak, are to be observed...