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...Basket Three. Most diplomatic observers were mildly encouraged by his statement that "no one should try to dictate to other peoples ... the manner in which they ought to manage their internal affairs"-though obviously he was talking more about Soviet affairs than anybody else's. Some thought he was warning that the Soviet Union would give only lip service to Basket Three, the collection of individual freedoms and rights that was the key section of the document for the U.S. and Western Europe. But there was room for optimism in Brezhnev's call for "a further development...
...delivered the following day, was a mirror image of Brezhnev's, in the sense that the points ignored by the Soviet leader were the ones stressed by the U.S. President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement in the future." Referring...
...security council would direct its criticisms eastward as well as westward. The fact that the two nations most interested in a permanent council were Yugoslavia and Rumania-Eastern Europe's most independent-minded Communist states -was extremely unsettling to Moscow. In the end, delegates settled for the fourth basket's provision for a follow-up meeting in Belgrade two years from...
...February, he was caught in a tight squeeze. To meet that deadline, he had to get the Security Conference completed, then move to a new SALT agreement and a successful trip to Washington. In the end, the Russians simply had to make more concessions than they wanted to on Basket Three. "We didn't even have to go to our fallback positions on most of the Basket Three issues," says one Western negotiator. "They were so eager for a July summit that the whole basket fell into place within two weeks...
...Security Conference was and is far less important than either SALT or MBFR. Only in the final stage at Geneva, when it appeared that some substantial gains might be possible in Basket Three, did the U.S. become fully engaged. Washington had been worried that the conference might mislead many Europeans into a false euphoria about the progress of détente. The fact that the Russians fought so hard against the so-called "confidence-building measures" (such as advance notification about military maneuvers) in Basket One went a long way toward dispelling that fear. "Nobody's going to disband...