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Quite the contrary. After that opening bit of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland banter, the curious encounter between Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing in Warsaw last week had everything to do with politics. It was the first face-to-face meeting between...
"Sort of a diplomatic minuet" was Edmund Muskie's prediction about his first encounter as Secretary of State with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But by the time the two finally met last week, the drum beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into...
The Muskie-Gromyko encounter thus yielded few clues about the course that the superpower relationship might take. What the meeting did show is two things: 1) the Carter Administration's determination to deal sternly with Moscow so long as Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan and 2) Muskie's...
Despite the FBI story that Henry Margenau, the physics professor, formally denied that his encounter with the FBI ever took place, Margenau now says, "I was visited by an FBI agent on several occasions--once or twice a year for several years--then nothing." He recalls the speech before the...
Buckley, Simon and Fairfield have had little contact in their post-college years. But Fairfield does recall one brief encounter. While still working for the Reporter in 1951, he was waiting alone in a ground-floor elevator of the National Press Building when Buckley entered the car: