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Like Childe Harold, Jimmy Carter was on a pilgrimage to Venice this week, not to muse on the fate of a vanished empire but to confer with the leaders of six allies in an effort to repair their sadly weakened ties. It was the sixth such summit in as many years, and it promised to be the most rancorous. Not in years has the West seemed in such disarray, with a newly self-confident Europe going its own way on issues ranging from the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to the deadlocked Middle East peace talks. Predicted a senior West German...
...next government will almost certainly pursue the conservative policies of the Brezhnev era. The leaders, though, will probably make overtures to China in an attempt to repair the 18-year-old Sino-Soviet breach. Meanwhile, thousands of middle-level officials who are now in their 40s and 50s will be jockeying for power behind the scenes. By the late 1980s, if not before, they will have completed the second stage of the inevitable transfer of authority to a new generation. Officials now holding 5,000 to 6,000 top jobs will be replaced. These will include not only members...
...conduct religious worship." But the church is not permitted to give formal religious instruction to those under age 18. It is against Soviet law for a congregation to worship in public unless its members are officially registered. The state wields total control over whether a parish can use or repair a building, indeed whether a parish can exist...
...scarce that the wise driver removes such tempting features as windshield wipers and side-view mirrors whenever he parks on the street. Even when the Soviet motorist leaves his car in the shop he must take care, for his auto may be stripped of items needed to repair other cars. A favorite Soviet axiom: "Your car comes out of the shop with fewer parts than it went in with...
...native Dallas. Two years later, he decided to give the Navy a second try and was assigned to a nuclear at tack submarine, the U.S.S. Pintado. But when it came time last week to reenlist, Barns decided to return ashore and begin a civilian career as a digital equipment repair man. Says Barns: "It wasn't worth ten more years of my life for what I was getting...