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...images of these friends are etched deeper in Reagan's mind, the view of his principal adversary Leonid Brezhnev is elusive and even receding. "I had met him ten years ago. That was when he was at San Clemente. And I did write him when I was in the hospital, after my little episode. I wrote him a handwritten letter. I will admit that the diplomatic corps was shocked and was not quite sure that handwritten letters should be written. But it was delivered. I reminded him of our meeting, then I asked whether it is not governments that...
...bureaucrats for racy Western films that are banned for the Soviet masses, and had exposed the bribes extracted by a circus director who chose which performers traveled abroad. More consequential, in April Newsweek nettled the Soviets with a decidedly premature cover story, to which Nagorski contributed, depicting Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as a dying man who was losing political control. But Nagorski got more than a routine dressing down. Press Office Deputy Director Yuri Viktorov brusquely foreclosed all discussion: Your accreditation as the Newsweek correspondent in Moscow, he began, is being withdrawn...
Moscow did issue one pointed reminder last week that it thought it still had a major role to play in the Middle East problem, when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev put Washington on notice that any decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon, however briefly, would force the Soviet Union to "build its policy with due consideration of this fact." But as Washington quickly noted, last week's message was not nearly as strong as the Soviet Union's support for the Arabs in 1973 during the October War. At that time, Moscow airlifted military supplies to Syria...
...fully the damage to Soviet-built weapons systems. In an unusual move, the official Soviet news agency TASS declared that all rumors that Soviet military equipment was inferior to the American-made arms in Israel's arsenal were "deliberately false" and a form of psychological warfare. Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin went out of his way to explain in a television broadcast that "more than 100 Israeli tanks were knocked out and the Syrians didn't do it with their bare hands." Zamyatin blamed Syria's defeat not only on the speed of the Israeli attack...
Reagan's high-stakes offer could spur resolution of the dangerous deadlock in Beirut. But there were rumblings at home and abroad last week that the risks might exceed the potential rewards. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent a letter to Reagan stating that if the U.S. sent its Marines to Lebanon, the U.S.S.R. might counter with moves of its own in the region. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee called President Reagan to express his concern about the plan. Even within the Administration there were qualms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has consistently opposed committing U.S. troops abroad...