阿曼德·哈默先生不久前会见勃列日涅夫后,热心地替后者向西方传话:一俟阿富汗“秩序安定”,苏联“肯定会撤军”。许多人对这项过于令人宽心的承诺表示怀疑,哈默却说:“我感到,而且我认为,勃列日涅夫先生说的是实话”;“我们应该相信”他的话。哈默何许人也?这位义务使者兼说客,乃美国“西方石油公司”董事长,从事对苏贸易已有近六十年历史。西方石油公司一九七三年同苏联签订了二十年长期合同,每年出售五亿美元的磷酸 After meeting with Brezhnev not long ago, Mr. Armand Hammer enthusiastically sent a message to the West for the latter: “The United Nations will certainly withdraw its troops once the order is stabilized” in Afghanistan. Many people are skeptical of this over-lenient commitment, and Hammer said: “I feel, and I think, Mr. Brezhnev is telling the truth.” “We should believe” what he said. Hamer Why People? The obliging messenger and lobbyist, the chairman of the U.S. “Western Oil Company,” has been trading in the Soviet Union for nearly sixty years. Western oil companies signed a 20-year long-term contract with the Soviet Union in 1973, selling 500 million U.S. dollars of phosphoric acid