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...SALT TALKS. After a conversation with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Muskie said on a television show that he had told the Russian leader that he and his colleagues in Congress were trying to cut back U.S. arms spending -and that many Americans do not share President Nixon's views on dealing with the Soviet Union. Undercutting the SALT talks and undermining U.S. foreign policy? No, said Muskie, he was simply talking as a ''private citizen." The ploy is familiar: Richard Nixon used it when he hobnobbed with world leaders on a 1967 swing, ostensibly as a lawyer...
Unkind Cut. By contrast, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who shared equal glory with Brezhnev at the last Party Congress in 1966, was cast in a lesser light, although he remains in a powerful position. In the new order of precedence in the Politburo, which was expanded by four members to 15, Kosygin dropped to No. 3, after aging President Nikolai Podgorny, 68, whose post is largely ceremonial. In an unkind cut for any politician, Kosygin's three-hour speech was carried only in edited excerpts on radio and television. Worse still, as he was speaking, Soviet TV was carrying...
...principal authors of the plan were Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, who personally signed the report in a departure from tradition as one more demonstration of his paramountcy within the Politburo, and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Among the goals...
Abroad, particularly in Communist capitals, speculation was presented as fact. In Moscow, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin charged flatly that American and South Vietnamese troops were involved in "an outrageous invasion" of Laos. In the U.S., the response was remarkably temperate. About the angriest reaction came from Democratic Presidential Hopeful George McGovern, who blasted the Administration for imposing "the longest news blackout of the war."* Added he: "What a way to run a war! What a way to manage a free society!" The U.S. command in Saigon defended the embargo as essential to keeping the enemy guessing about allied intentions...
...Andrei Gromyko would receive him. Muskie and Gromyko talked for nearly three hours over a "wide range" of subjects. The next day came the coup of the trip for a presidential candidate seeking to strengthen his foreign policy credentials: a 3-hr. 45-min. interview on "bilateral interests" with Aleksei Kosygin. It was the longest discussion that the Soviet Premier has held with an American visitor since coming to power. Once again came word that the talks had been "cordial." Muskie would not elaborate beyond that stock description, insisting that he needed "time to digest." After all, he said...