If I didn't talk about Brezhnev, I'm not going to talk about 'Seinfeld.
That is how Brezhnev over-reached himself in the 1970s, and how Argentina's generals lost the war in the Falklands.
In 1979, U.S. President Carter and Soviet President Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2 Treaty in Vienna.
Many Russians believed him, perhaps even Leonid Brezhnev, the then Soviet leader.
The world has, of course, seen many international doctrines -- Monroe, Truman, and Brezhnev have all made their contributions, some more positive than others.
Historians are still making up their minds about the Brezhnev era.
But the probability is that Brezhnev decided that, after six years delving into the most intimate secrets of the Soviet leadership, Mr Semichastny had become dangerous.
Which President Nixon had signed with Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.
Brezhnev died in 1982, to the relief of western governments.
Though Mr. Reagan rejected his predecessor's "arms control process, " symbolized by the hug Mr. Carter gave Leonid Brezhnev when they signed SALT II, Mr. Reagan did not reject diplomacy.
Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons.
In September 1978, Kennedy traveled to Moscow for a meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to urge him to let the Katz family -- or at the very least, Jessica -- leave the country immediately.
Mr. Netanyahu, too, inevitably, will continue diplomacy, but not the particular approach to the "peace process" symbolized by Shimon Peres' embracing Yasser Arafat and declaring, as Mr. Carter did with Mr. Brezhnev, that the two men actually share a vision of peace.
Finally, my thesis adviser in grad school has researched Russian demographics for over 30 years, including during the Brezhnev period when basic demographic indicators were state secrets (he had to painstakingly assemble estimates by laboriously pouring over specialized virology and immunology journals which had a few data points scattered throughout them).
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The post-cold-war world differs from the disciplined bipolar world of the years between 1945 and 1989 because, among other things, it contains quite a lot of countries which may be able to lay their hands on weapons of mass destruction and whose rulers may be less carefully calculating than a Nikita Khrushchev or a Leonid Brezhnev.
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