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...tightly wound and always on the offensive, scored the most points on substance; Reagan, with a relaxed, reassuring demeanor that belied the President's portrayal of him as dangerous, came out ahead on style. When at the end, Reagan bounded 15 ft. to Carter's lectern to shake hands, both men were ready to take comfort, if not complete satisfaction, from their efforts...
...arrest hasn't seemed to shake up the other refuseniks very much. In fact they've been very calm," Kranc said this week adding, "they're really an incredible people who just have very simple wishes and ambitions, it's the terrible circumstances that makes them so heroic...
...recent public appearances, Brezhnev is 73 and suffers from a host of ailments, reportedly including cancer of the jaw and heart disease. The average age of the inner circle of the ruling 15-man Politburo is 69. Most Kremlinologists agreed that the Kosygin move did not presage any major shake-up or policy shift. If anything, it was expected to enhance Brezhnev's own already dominant power. A master of political survival, who was said by Dissident Leader Andrei Sakharov to be "the most intelligent and toughest man in the Politburo," Kosygin periodically differed with Brezhnev both on economic...
...trembling would make the slightest bit of difference. The terrors of the times have a tendency to arrive on their own steam. And see: here come three more. We know them well. For months they have been hounding us - grinning, waving wildly, like demons, grabbing our hands and shaking them, while we shied away in fright, figuring that with the ghost of a chance, we could avoid a confrontation perhaps for ever. Now our hands shake on their own. For this is the scariest time of the year, and the three of them are out there, pounding at the door...