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Still, Muscovites could scarcely fail to notice that Brezhnev's highly conspicuous black ZIL limousine was no longer speeding down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt around 10:15 every morning, taking the leader from his suburban dacha to his Kremlin office. Significantly, TASS reported that a visit to Moscow by South Yemen President Ali Nasser Muhammad had been canceled two days before he was to have met with Brezhnev. Reports that Brezhnev had been taken to the gray, five-story Kremlin clinic reserved for Soviet leaders were reinforced when the clinic's director, Cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, canceled...
...Soviet Union has consistently denied its involvement in chemical warfare. The Soviet news agency TASS denounced the State Department report as "dirty lies," and pointedly noted that the U.S. had used poisonous herbicides (including the controversial Agent Orange) during the Viet Nam War. The Soviets have also accused the U.S. of supplying Afghan rebels with chemical weapons and of preparing to use them against Cuba and the rebels in El Salvador...
...Moscow, meanwhile, where Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek was conferring with his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, a joint communiqué denounced the NATO declaration as "an attempt at grossly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." In a separate commentary, however, the Soviet news agency TASS expressed the hope that disagreements over the Polish question would not compromise the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons...
From Moscow came the harshest attack on the Reagan Administration to date. TASS accused the President of "new acts of blackmail" and of "a deliberate striving to hurl the world back to the dark times of the cold war." Said the official Soviet news agency: "Washington's rulers are in a hurry to whip up a campaign of hatred against socialist countries, to undermine the foundations of Soviet-American relations, and to curtail them to a minimum...
...equally certain that Gaddafi will go to extreme lengths to avoid allowing Soviet technicians to come in and help with the oil production. Indeed, Gaddafi seems careful to keep the 3,000 to 5,000 Soviet advisers now in Libya isolated in outlying military posts. The representative of TASS news agency in Tripoli complained openly last week about the Soviet inability to persuade Gaddafi to allow them to open a military base...