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Even before Carter's Inauguration, Leonid Brezhnev had signaled his readiness to work with the incoming President "to accomplish a major new advance in relations." Speaking at Tula, a three-century-old armaments manufacturing center 100 miles south of Moscow, the Kremlin chief pledged that the U.S.S.R. "will never embark on the road of aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford...
...yarn). Half the distaffs are covered with figures of birds, animals, and fanciful arabesques in bright tempera; the others are blond wood so delicately carved that they give the impression of lace. A great find was a group of clever toy whistles made by craftsmen in the Arkhangelsk and Tula regions from 1890 through 1910. The whistles are in the form of horses, dogs, bears, a hen and her chicks, and peasants, and are gaily decorated with bright yellow, peacock blue, and magenta stripes. My favorite one depicts a troika--three little horses' heads connected to one tiny horse...
...censorship. Novelist William Styron has reproached Kuznetsov for not remaining silent after his defection. Kuznetsov's own publisher in Britain observed that "decisions taken in states of emotion are generally the wrong ones." Kuznetsov replied to one of his critics that his old apartment in the city of Tula was now vacant. "Let him go and try it," he said...
...longer remain a member of the Communist Party. I request you to release me from membership of the C.P.S.U. I hereby withdraw from my duties as party secretary of the Writers Organization of the Tula Region. I have left my party membership card there...
...longer wish to remain a member of the Union of Writers of the U.S.S.R. I request you to release me from membership and from my obligations as Deputy Secretary of the Tula Regional Writers Organization...