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Publicly, at least, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev took the same position. He sent Carter a message acknowledging, in the U.S. President's words, "that the proper relationship between sovereign nations is to have full diplomatic relations." The Soviets objected to the joint Chinese-American communique opposing "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord...
...finishing touches on the long-stalled SALT II treaty to limit nuclear weapons. If all goes well-and White House officials maintained that the changed relations with Peking would not affect the SALT talks?Carter is expected to hold his first summit next month with Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev to sign the pact...
...Kremlin's reactions are hard to measure, but Western diplomats in Moscow agreed with Carter's assessment that the Soviets had long expected the U.S. move, and that, as the President said, this week's SALT talks "will not suffer any adverse effect." If all goes well, the Carter-Brezhnev summit is tentatively set for sometime during the week...
...Israelis want to come back for another summit with the President to iron out the Middle East problems. As SALT moves toward completion, a meeting must be arranged between Brezhnev and Carter. This is even more urgent now that China and the U.S. are normalizing relations and Teng Hsiao-p'ing will be coming here to see Carter in January...
...surrounded by some wheat instead of a hammer and sickle. After it unfurled this banner in October, the regime promptly 1) withdrew recognition from South Korea in favor of the Communist North, 2) described its accession to power as a "continuation" of the Russian Revolution, and 3) gratuitously parroted Brezhnev's charge of "imperialist" interference by the U.S. in Iran. But except for the ever suspicious Chinese, diplomats in Kabul have found no evidence that all this was on Moscow's orders. In fact, Soviet representatives in Afghanistan confide that they have advised the feudal country...