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'BY SMITH kEMPSTONE man
WASHINGTON - As they fly jeolb
together Friday across the 'pft
breadth of 'the United States to gub
the California White House at whI4
San Clemente, Soviet Communist in 1
party boss Leonid Dych Brezhnev Watb
and President Richard Milhous I
Nixon must be musing about the nev I
twists of fate that have made er, j
them the world's two nost pow- last,
erful men. Los
The odds against either achiev- firm
ing the success that each has sling
were, to say the least, imposing. fortt
Both were born in tank towns - the I
Nixon in Yorba Linda, Cal., cipe
Brezhnev in Kamens'yoke (now Stall
Dnephodzerzhinsk) in the Uk- Cent
raine - of humsble parents: The Brez
66-year-old Brezhnev's father was Stall
a steelworker, the 60-year-old B
Nixon's a streetcar motorman minc
and, later, a general store pro- WatA
prietor. goin
Success came neither quickly, goin
easily nor uninterruptedly for ei- the
ther man. Nixon failed to make Niki
the Whittier College Football beet
team, to graduate Number One Khm
in his Duke University law school Ing t
class, to get a job with a big-city er in
law firm or to become an FBI H
agent. His 14 years (1946-60) of to di
political success as a congress- colne
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senator and ffi' id* n
psed in the =s of 1960
Liential and I962 del1Iforola
Matorialidefeats from
he eiiei""d phoenix-like
8 and 1912, only to find
rgate.
the league in *vhich Brezh
layed druing his rise to pow,
Ice guys not only finishod
but often a very dead last.
rs.had noWal Street law
to retreat to against the
and arrows of outrageous
me. . A bullet In the back of
ead was the presciised re
tor those who offended
i, and only 3 of,the 102
al Committee nmebets in
inev's Ukraine survived the
ist purges.
ezhnev, perhaps taking to
John N. Mitchell's delphic
rgate dictum that "when the
gets tough, the tough get
," attached his troika to
ising star of a fellow named
a Khrushchev. lthe burly,
a-browed Ukrainian repaid
shchev's patronage by help
oust his mentor from pow
1964.
Aving always been prepared
nounce his own friends and
gues to ensure his own sur
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Week No. 3
vIval Bezhnav would have'
no ditculty hidsrstand1
otergte's "scapegoat OnW*'
Jeb Kagru'der has ca1led it)~ WIi
he would not have unoerstoc
had the 9ryin committee n
cancelled this week's hearings
deference to diplomatie nicetil
Is why John W. Dean I1 a
Others in the all-star Wterg'
cast had not beon given one-w
tickets to the American Oquil
lent of Siberia, for that Is hc
they organize things back on t!
collective farm.
Brezhnev, like Nixon duri
his first term, has demonstrat
a propensity and .an ability
concentrate -power in his oj
hands at the expense of real
potential -rivals. In 1971, 1
packed the Politburo with to
of his proteges and this spring I
ousted t*o foes, Pyotr Y. Shek,
and Gennady I. Voronov. So,
make one thing perfectly clei
Brezhnev is, as they used to s
about somebody else, the'one,
Dealing with a capo .I
Brezhnev, who has climbed
ladder of other men's bones a
is just as tough in his intert
tional dealings (does anyboi
remember who order the Rus
sian invasion of Czechosloval
in 1968?), would seem, at best,
tricky business.
And Indeed 'it: is. But Bre2
nev, like Nixon; has his eyes i
the history books and is pi
pared to eschew the anti-cap
alist rantings of his earlier care
(the mirror-image of the youl
Nixon's professional anti-comm
nism) If by so. doing he can go
access to the financial credi
and technology of America whi,
alone can save the Soviet Unior
economy - and hence the Coi
munist political establishment
from its own internal contj
dictions.
Like the Czar Peter the Grej
Brezhnev would borrow from t
West that which will make Ri
sia more poweiful, more secui
But as the Kremlin has ma,
clear, computers are one thir
compassion another. Indeed,
foreign techniques and tectil
clans are employed to an evi
increasing extent in the Sovi
Union, repression Is likely
mount in an attempt to vaccina
the subject peoples of the Sovi
Union and Eastern Iurope
gainst the virus of freed6m, t
cancer of ideas.
Detente with the Soviet Uni<
is desireable if only because t
ultimate,alternative, nuclear we
is unthinkable. But a deter
bought at the price of stratei
arms agreements which conce
more than nuclear nrity to t
Soviet Union, purchased at t
price of grain, deals which di
up food costs for hard-press
American consumers, obtain
at the price of a U.S. capital
vestment in Soviet tyranny whi
smacks more of aid than
trade, is net much of a deten
particularly if It is obtained
bartering away the freedom
generations of Russians and Ea
ern Europeans yet unborn.
In short, Brezhnev, as Nix
must realize as they wing towi
the Rockies, is not the sort
man you'd buy a used samos
from. You deal with Brezhn
as Khrushchev discovered, I
way porcupines make love: Ca
fully. History is white with I
bones of those who thoug
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21 and mature, but there's one
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time - I shower with the rest of
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of You know, the one with all the
Le, girls in it. If things are still out o,
by whack, choose whichever showe
of room you like, relax and havee
st- good time. It may prove to be d
profitable hobby.
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Advice?
Off It!
Dear No:
A woman is just a woman,
but a frog is a friend forever.
Mitzi.
Dear Mitzi Vivaldi:
When you are shacking up
with a girl,. is It considered in
poor taste to wear maroon un
dershorts when she is wearing
chartreuse negligee to bed when
the bed has yellow sheets on it?
Peter.
Dear Peter:
Aw, come off it.
Dear Mitzi Vivaldi:
All I wanted was .a simple
"yes"~ or "no," you old bat.
Peter.
Look, sonny, I'm an old lady.
You can't call me that and get
away with it-especially living
like you do.
CONFIDENTIAL TO R.J.--As
far as I know, there Is no docu
mentable proof'or support to
the rumor that Mick Jagger ever
wore a bush jacket. MITI.1