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...diplomat noted, the easing of external pressure on Warsaw could well be due only "to a desire for peace and quiet within the East bloc during the upcoming Soviet Party Congress in Moscow." In presiding over that nine-day Communist extravaganza, which begins this week, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev will want to paint Moscow's empire in the most favorable light possible; thus the timing of Poland's apparent labor truce works to the Kremlin's advantage. But when Kania returns from Moscow, his ears will almost certainly be ringing with stern warnings to halt...
Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, speaking before the 26th Communist Party congress in Moscow, yesterday proposed a summit meeting with President Reagan and reopening talks for a strategic arms limitation treaty. In Washington, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said the U.S. is "very interested" in Brezhnev's ideas and that the Soviet president's speech contained "new and remarkable innovations...
...Soviet bloc; it also requires that all be quiet along the eastern front with China. It was by no means coincidental that the Soviets were receptive to the Nixon-Kissinger initiatives for détente in 1969; that year the Soviets were fighting on the border with China. Similarly, Brezhnev would like, if possible, to defuse Soviet-American antagonisms now, because a military invasion of Poland, at a time when heightened East-West tensions are still crackling...
...Brezhnev in 1968: "Our party has always warned that in the ideological field, there can be no peaceful coexistence, just as there can be no class peace between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie...
Giscard has been slow to react to the anti-Soviet mood that developed in France after Moscow's invasion of Afghanistan. Frenchmen still do not understand his surprise meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw last May. Giscard's failure to act more decisively to prevent the Libyan invasion of Chad last December has eroded much of the credit he won after sending French paratroopers to the threatened Shaba province of Zaire...