Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT: Vance believes that the most urgent priority in American foreign policy is to conclude a new strategic arms limitation treaty with Russia, to slow down the arms race and improve U.S. security. He is anxious not to let the growing domestic controversy over SALT influence the Administration's position in the negotiations. He believes that U.S. public statements on SALT should not foreclose further compromises on both sides. Brzezinski, on the other hand, has been saying that the U.S. has given all it can, and that further movement is up to the Russians. While Brzezinski supports the prospective...
Bill Bradley, New Jersey candidate for the U.S. Senate on always being labeled a basketball star: "I suppose some day, when I've served in the Senate with some distinction and am visiting Russia, I'll read, 'Senator Bill Bradley, the former New York Knick, met today with Leonid Brezhnev...
...Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, Rostropovich and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, were deprived of their Soviet citizenship as "ideological renegades." "Slava" Rostropovich called the action "inhumane and unfair." U.S. officials said they would be happy to grant him refugee status whenever he requested it. But neither in Russia nor America can a piece of paper define Rostropovich's overflowing identity...
...human rights. When Communist Russia and Capitalist America finally stand before the dread Judgment Seat neither, I imagine, will lack for accusers. Yes, Moscow's record on individual liberties is execrable. But the black ghettos in American cities are unforgivable. How can the richest nation countenance them...
...voters as acceptable trade-offs for the security provided by a welfare state. As for the U.S.S.R.'s East bloc satellites, Aron concludes: "I find that there are no grounds for thinking that the leaderships of the Hungarian, Polish or Czechoslovak parties, once freed from the grasp of Soviet Russia, would convert to freedom of their own accord and renounce all, or important parts, of their power. As long as the Red Army tanks assure the permanence of their reign, they improve their brand image in the eyes of the governed, acquiring a partial legitimacy through concessions to popular aspirations...