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During Richard Nixon's third year, with the Viet Nam War effort failing and inflation rising, there was speculation about his being a one-term President. His response was what became known as the "Nixon shocks." He devalued the dollar, imposed wage and price controls, and announced he would visit China...
Although similarities exist with the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, there are also major differences. The Soviet Union, for one thing, is dealing with a neighbor, not a nation 10,000 miles away, and thus it is not plagued by long supply lines. More important, Moscow does not need to be concerned about domestic opposition to the war. Says a senior British official: "There has been no television coverage of the war in Afghanistan, so Moscow does not have to worry too much about what the folks back home are thinking...
...Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov and his eleven colleagues on the ruling Politburo filed on stage last week. The new Soviet leader moved slowly to his place beneath a monumental bust of Lenin, turning to acknowledge Communist leaders who had come from as far as Cuba and Viet Nam to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union. Dressed in a smartly tailored blue suit and maroon tie, Andropov looked well-rested and healthier than he had five weeks earlier at the funeral of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev. But his sober demeanor suggested that...
...Union is in desperate shape internally and that it's suffering from acute international indigestion. It has taken big bites out of Afghanistan and other countries, but it hasn't been able to digest them. It's paying the cost of conquest in Poland, Cuba and Viet Nam. The system has been an abject failure at home and has no appeal abroad...
...silent in the I face of such human suffering and such cynical disregard for international law and agreements." So declared Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he presented a new ten-page report that, for the second time this year, accused the Soviet Union and its ally Viet Nam of using biochemical weapons against native rebel forces in Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia in flagrant violation of two major international accords. Since 1975, U.S. officials charge, nearly 10,000 people have died as the result of "yellow rain," a distinctive yellowish mist that is sprayed from planes or that...