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Says one U.S. senior foreign policy adviser: "Our relationship with the Soviets has changed dramatically in the past year. Before, we were seeking broad-based accommodations. Now our relations are focused almost entirely on SALT." Brezhnev agrees. He told TIME: "Over the last couple of years, there have been few encouraging moments, to be frank, in Soviet-American relations...
...This is a watershed period in our ties with the U.S.S.R.," warns William Hyland, a former longtime member of the National Security Council and now senior fellow at Washington's Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The next months or year will be very critical. With China's moves west, the U.S. normalization with Peking, the possibility of Western arms sales to the Chinese, and developments in SALT, all the major actors are in motion. We have to be very careful...
...senior Administration official sees a danger that the U.S. can blame too many difficulties on Moscow. "There is an assumption that everything the Soviets do is an attempt to get the United States or disadvantage us," says he. "That is a gross oversimplification. We often create problems by exaggerating Soviet influence." This official does not doubt that the Soviets like to exploit any advantage they can find, or that they would like to divide up the world into spheres of influence, but he does not interpret this as a strategy of conquest. "The group in power there is quite cautious...
...senior Kremlin watchers in Moscow puts it flatly, and puts it best: "Brezhnev runs the show." In the old days, it is true, the President's sleek black ZIL limousine roared down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt to the Kremlin every morning at 8 o'clock. Now it usually arrives after 10. Brezhnev takes more naps than he once did, and more vacations. His attention span is shorter. Instead of the impromptu policy discussions he used to thrive on, he greets important political visitors with remarks and toasts read from papers prepared for him. Much of his old zest...
...Rumanian government, once again at odds with Moscow, took Cambodia's side and declared that the ouster of Pol Pot was "a heavy blow for the prestige of socialism." Washington was almost bemused by the spectacle of one ferocious Communist nation pulverizing another. It was, said one senior Administration official, a case of "an abhorrent regime being overthrown by an abhorrent aggression...