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...Inauguration, the Reagan Administration of necessity last week turned its attention to foreign policy. Important visitors-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet and Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir-were in Washington to get acquainted with the new Administration. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was speaking out in Moscow, giving his first-and unexpectedly moderate-response to Ronald Reagan's tough anti-Communist talk. Congress, as well as some of America's allies, was beginning to ask troublesome questions about whether the Administration's desire to draw the line against Communist-aided...
...Brezhnev's speech to the Soviet Communist Party Congress (see WORLD) had been expected by some Administration foreign policy experts to be an anti-American diatribe. Instead, Brezhnev suggested a summit meeting between himself and Reagan, and expressed a willingness to talk further about arms control while retaining the SALT II treaty's "positive elements"-a phrase reminiscent of Reagan's speeches during last fall's campaign. Brezhnev also tossed out a variety of negotiating ideas that Secretary of State Alexander Haig judged "new and remarkable." Among them: a hint that the Soviets might consider expanding...
...supplying arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador "should be straightened out"-that is, eliminated-before any summit meeting. Still the Administration did not slam the door on a summit, although the President is clearly not interested in an early meeting. Instead it indicated that Reagan would see Brezhnev, but only after long and thorough consultation with U.S. allies. As the President told reporters at an impromptu press conference, "I have pledged to them that we're not going to act on things like this unilaterally...
...nations accused by the State Department vehemently deny military involvement in El Salvador, and have publicly wondered why, if Mr. Reagan is so upset about this conspiracy, he has not bothered to contact their embassies or make any other effort at official communication. In fact, Leonid Brezhnev has asked our President to a summit meeting, in which the issue of El Salvador could be thoroughly discussed in an atmosphere free of rumors. But Reagan declined...
...with Moscow altogether. Last week, in a rare public display of a Communist family quarrel, the Soviet Communist Party was revealed as having blasted Berlinguer in no uncertain terms. The Italian weekly Panorama published a confidential letter from the Soviet Cen tral Committee, obviously with the imprimatur of Leonid Brezhnev, rebuking the Italians for showing too much solidarity with Solidarity...