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Bitten by Potomac fever, many are trying to stay in Washington. John Marsh, Ford's White House Counsellor, and ex-Transportation Secretary William Coleman will practice law in the capital. Ending a 25-year career in the Foreign Service, Kremlinologist Helmut Sonnenfeldt will teach at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies...
...bored with the proceedings, since he and the rest of the Politburo had already read and approved the Premier's remarks. What may be more revealing than Brezhnev's absence, suggested U.S. analysts, is that Kosygin limited himself to economic matters. Noted a State Department Kremlinologist: "Previously, it never bothered Kosygin to speak on a wider range of issues, but this time he avoided poaching on any Brezhnev territory...
...diminish "ideological competition" with the capitalist West. But some experts interpreted his definition of détente as a repudiation of a basic principle enunciated in the 1972 Moscow summit. There the U.S. and U.S.S.R. vowed not to seek "unilateral advantages" against each other. Says a Munich-based Kremlinologist: "The Soviet Union is taking on the role of a world gendarme and is using its advantage wherever a vacuum is created by the withdrawal of the U.S." That interpretation is supported by the vigorous pace of the Soviet arms buildup (see following story). Brezhnev's speech does not spell...
...long been a formidable and potentially troublesome contender for it. At 56, Shelepin is a mere stripling in the ruling Soviet gerontocracy. He was the youngest member in the Politburo, where the average age is 66, and probably the healthiest. Moreover, as George Washington University Kremlinologist Carl Linden sees it, his impatient approach probably clashed with that of his cautious elders. "While Brezhnev and the other old men wanted to pursue glacial tactics, Shelepin was an activist, always looking for opportunities to shake things up in the world. He has probably favored pressing the Soviet advantage in Indochina, Portugal...
...resignation rumors were subsiding for lack of evidence, another one surfaced when an unidentified Communist diplomat in Warsaw was quoted as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a heart attack last month-just before he vanished from public view. Some Kremlin watchers favored yet another popular diagnosis: leukemia. A London Kremlinologist reported that Brezhnev had developed a "moonface," or puffiness of the cheeks and jowls, a typical side effect of cortisone treatment for some kinds of cancer...