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Brown gets along well with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The three keep in touch via daily phone chats and weekly lunches in an attempt, as an aide puts it, "to prove that the infighting of the Nixon and Ford era does not have to be the norm." At meetings on U.S. SALT policy, says a State Department negotiator, "Brown is the dominating figure. He knows so incredibly much about nuclear weapons and the strategic balance that everyone defers to him. When the President isn't there, Brown is the de facto chairman...
Nixon's memories of Nikita Khrushchev were vivid. He was "boorish, crude, brilliant, ruthless, potentially rash, with a terrible inferiority complex." He would put on a "big macho act to prove that he was ahead of everybody and everything." Part of the act was his "air of being just a common, peasantlike person... with a sloppy hat and a collar that wouldn't be too clean...
...seeking "class enemies of the broad masses" -meaning opponents of the brutal Marxist regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and his military administrative council, known as the Dergue. Scouring slum areas of the capital, kebele patrols kick open doors of mud huts in search of objects that would prove subversive intent. Among them: typewriters and field glasses. Justice is often administered on the spot-with a bullet. Foreign diplomats estimate that perhaps 3,000 people have been murdered since January by kebele cadres in Addis Ababa, and at least that many elsewhere in the country...
Yale will send their heavyweight novice four up against Radcliffe's lightweight four in a two-mile tilt which should prove interesting. The lights finished a strong third in a six-boat field last week...
Still, the long-striding dark bay will be a firm favorite for the 1 1/16-mile Preakness in Baltimore later this month, though his competition will stiffen there. He may have serious trouble in New York's Belmont Stakes; the 1 ½-mile distance could prove too much for him. While his performance may mute Triple Crown talk, Seattle Slew was still the best at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day, which makes him this year's colt with a shot at U.S. racing's most coveted sweep...