Brezhnev rules out change
NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Soviet President (Mr Leonid Brezhnev) has given an oblique assurance to the West that it could'count on future Kremlin leaders sticking to his foreign policy. At a reception in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday, Mr Brezhnev gave no hint he might retire, and indicated he would stay in office as long as his health permitted. But he gave what appeared to be a reply to worries in the West that the next generation of Soviet leaders might be more aggressive in their policies. “In conversations with foreign statesmen one sometimes hears them say that
they believe in Brezhnev’s love of peace, but they know nothing yet about others in the Soviet Union,” the Tass news agency quoted him as saying. “Little do you know the Soviet Union,” Mr Brezhnev replied. Soviet foreign policy was firm and undeviating, Mr Brezhnev assured his listeners: “That is the way things are today and that is the way they will continue to be.” In an earlier speech Mr Brezhnev also went out of his way to emphasise that he and his colleagues in the ruling Politburo were united on all policy issues.
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