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...evident jubilation over his trip was scarcely reassuring. He had asked that the meeting be treated as a "working visit," with a minimum of pomp. When a tense but determined Schmidt stepped down from his white and blue Luftwaffe jet at Moscow's Vnukovo II Airport, President Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on hand, along with a goose-stepping honor guard. Belying rumors about his ill health, Brezhnev strolled briskly across the Tarmac to greet Schmidt. The ceremony was clearly intended to convey the Kremlin's satisfaction that the Soviets were...
Neither Schmidt nor his nervous allies had cause to worry about the summit's outcome. After two days of intense and often brutally frank discussion with Brezhnev and his top aides, the Chancellor returned home with his reputation as a statesman intact, and with a promise of progress on arms-reduction talks. The Soviets, reported Schmidt, had abandoned two key preconditions for entering into negotiations with the U.S. on limiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe. "This is not a breakthrough," Schmidt told the Bundestag on his return, but "it opens a chance of preventing an unfettered...
...pains to do less preaching than usual and more horse trading with the allies. He was notably restrained during a 90-minute tirade from Schmidt, who was still smarting over a letter from the President three weeks ago implying that he was jeopardizing the alliance by meeting with Brezhnev this week. Carter had suspected that Schmidt might propose to the Soviets a freeze on deployment of medium-range missiles in Europe. But Schmidt told Carter that his suspicions were "totally unwarranted, and you know it." When Schmidt said that he had sent the President copies of speeches spelling...
...view of the situation. He has held his office for six years and is head of the small but important Free Democratic Party. It is the coalition partner of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats. Genscher will accompany Schmidt to Moscow on June 30 for talks with Leonid Brezhnev. In an interview with TIME Correspondent B. William Mader, Genscher outlined the German view...
Anticipating his trip, with Chancellor Schmidt, to Moscow for discussions with Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders: Particularly under the impact of heightened international tension, there is a need for the dialogue between East and West. It is important in these times to underscore the firm position of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Western alliance. We think it necessary that the Soviet Union should at last declare its readiness to enter without prior conditions into negotiations on medium-range systems, and that possibility should be sought for disarmament and arms control in other sectors. We, the West, want...