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...from the North-South fighting, even if the government in Argentina does not become more accommodating to the Soviets. Both Haig and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym have complained that the U.S.S.R. has been "fishing in troubled waters" with its propaganda attempts to capitalize on the crisis. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, speaking at a Moscow dinner honoring Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said that the South Atlantic confrontation occurred "precisely because there are forces that are trying to preserve or restore their positions of dominance and to impose foreign oppression." In deference to his Marxist guest, Brezhnev did not embrace...
...Falkland Islands crisis has become for Ronald Reagan an intense seminar on geopolitics and war, focusing questions of stunning clarity on almost every aspect of the exercise of world power. Reagan, derided a year ago by Leonid Brezhnev as a global cowboy, has emerged as the man who repeatedly cautioned his Government in secret meetings, "Don't shoot from...
...mater, Eureka College in Illinois, on Sunday-his most comprehensive address on East-West relations since taking office-Reagan finally unveiled his proposal for a new round in negotiations with the Soviet Union. He suggested that the talks begin in June and reiterated his suggestion of a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the United Nations next month, but said he would be willing to have a summit later, as the Soviets prefer. "When we sit down, I will tell President Brezhnev that the U.S. is ready to build a new understanding," said Reagan. "I will tell him that his people...
Once again Leonid Brezhnev confounded the doomsayers who had placed him at death's door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers...
Since March 25, when Leonid Brezhnev first vanished from public view, wave upon wave of rumors has swept through the Soviet Union that the 75-year-old President had suffered a stroke. Ignoring the official explanation-that Brezhnev had merely gone away on vacation-Muscovites swapped reports that he was dying or indeed already dead. Some Western press accounts fueled the speculation. So it was with great anticipation that Soviet citizens waited by their television sets last week to learn whether the Soviet leader would turn up as scheduled at the festivities marking the 112th anniversary of the birth...