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...looked more like the return of a victorious national hero than the arrival of a troubled neighbor. Standing on a red carpet at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...January 1973 until the spectacular collapse of the Nixon Administration less than 19 months later. Next week's third and final installment will recount the increasingly acrimonious debate over detente as Watergate began to drain authority from the U.S. presidency and Kissinger's dramatic encounters with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung, the men who were guiding the destinies of America's principal adversaries...
...there was another call from Dobrynin. It was 4:35 a.m. in Moscow, but he had a letter from Brezhnev so urgent that he had to read it to me on the phone. I could see why. It was in effect an ultimatum: it proposed joint Soviet and American military forces to ensure not only the cease-fire but also the imposition of a comprehensive peace. And, Brezhnev went on, "I will say it straight that if you find it impossible to act jointly with us in this matter, we should be faced with the necessity urgently to consider...
...Thursday, Dobrynin phoned to say he had another letter from Brezhnev. It was written as if the crisis of the night before had never occurred. Without any reference to his threat of unilateral intervention, Brezhnev informed Nixon that he had dispatched 70 Soviet "representatives"?apparently not military personnel?to observe implementation of the ceasefire. The Soviets had backed off. The immediate danger was over. I recommended that Schlesinger stand down the alert starting at midnight...
Meanwhile, I was becoming convinced that the Soviets were seeking to fish in troubled waters. I learned from our Ambassador in Amman, Dean Brown, that the Soviets had urged Jordan's King Hussein to enter the battle. Later in the day an appeal by Brezhnev on similar lines to President Houari Boumedienne of Algeria was made public. "We can't let the Soviet Union get away with this," I told the WSAG. I warned Dobrynin against encouraging other nations to enter the conflict...