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Citing arms sales to Taiwan and Russian domestic problems among the reasons for Brezhnev's move. Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said yesterday he was "skeptical" that the Chinese would react enthusiastically to the proposal...
...They will respond cooly and correctly, with no undue haste," he predicted, because "they don't want to seem flighty" to the United States by "dashing off and jumping at Brezhnev's offer...
Both MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank professor of history emeritus, agreed with Goldman that the arms sales to Taiwan were a motivating factor in Brezhnev's statements...
...relished the accounts of how the CIA penetrated the Polish government and how informers, once discovered, were spirited out of the country along with their families-but not before they had disclosed Moscow's hand in the martial-law crackdown. Reagan has followed the cabled details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back...
...contingency, or a two-to three-year extension of the 1972 interim agreement, too short a period. Perhaps we should aim for a new agreement that would run for, say, ten years, from 1975 to 1985. Gromyko accepted and the negotiations were placed in a different framework. Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to meet during the winter to implement the new approach...