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Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan is accustomed to covering diplomatic affairs, but in recent weeks he played diplomat as well as painstakingly negotiating the final details of a meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Nelan was successful, and last Tuesday he and a team of TIME journalists joined Brezhnev in his Kremlin office to conduct the extraordinary discussion that is part of this week's cover story. Never before had the party chief held a private interview with members of an American news organization...
...morning of the interview, Brezhnev formally gave his guests a red leather folder containing his prepared answers to those questions that had been submitted in advance and then answered additional questions from TIME'S delegation. The contents of the folder became an immediate souvenir for Nelan; the answers were typed in Russian, with Brezhnev's signature on the last page...
Recent disagreements with the West notwithstanding, Saudi policy remains as anti-Communist and anti-Soviet as ever. There appears to be no basis for recent reports that the Saudis are thinking of establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, although Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev may well have written the Saudi leadership proposing
...strongly advocated normalization with Peking, for example, understandably minimize the impact of that move on U.S.-Soviet relations. But arguments that the China policy stalled SALT seem to have more adherents, especially at the State Department, where a number of veteran diplomats had expected some kind of reaction from Brezhnev to Carter's move...
...senators, invited to the Soviet Union by the Supreme Soviet, are expected to meet with Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev...