ANATOLY DOBRYNIN

A society run by bureaucrats issuing diktats can’t function, because there is no recourse to these apparatchiks. There is no remedy for reform.

How profoundly human nature and indeed human relations affect the outcome of events.

The Israelis were willing to accept a cease-fire proposal, but the Egyptians would not accept anything that implied that Israel had the right to exist.

You don’t just cut off a bread subsidy after 60 years.

A society run by bureaucrats issuing diktats can’t function, because there is no recourse to these apparatchiks. There is no remedy for reform.

You don’t just cut off a bread subsidy after 60 years.

How profoundly human nature and indeed human relations affect the outcome of events.

The Israelis were willing to accept a cease-fire proposal, but the Egyptians would not accept anything that implied that Israel had the right to exist.