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Fittingly, Hua was given a boisterous reception-although one that was carefully gauged not to exceed that given Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...Liberal Democratic Party up for election in December and rival candidates calling for the treaty with China for both trade and security reasons, Fukuda needed a foreign policy coup to bolster his position. The Russians responded again with a stiff protest. In a letter to Fukuda, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev warned that Soviet policy toward Japan might be seriously affected if Tokyo signed the document. This time the warning was ignored. Said Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda: "Japan will not tolerate instructions from another country on the conduct of its policies...
Every dictator from Brezhnev to Amin will quote Young to justify the continuation and perhaps the tightening of the suppression of his people...
...potentially one of the most important pieces of paper in the world. It is also one of the most complicated. The typescript of the Joint Draft Text for a SALT II agreement runs 61 pages-ten times as long as the SALT I agreement Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed in 1972. Every page is stamped SECRET, and almost every sentence is the result of months, in some cases years, of bargaining...
...Fyodor Kulakov, 60, Soviet Politburo member and former National Party Secretary for Agriculture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The youngest man to serve simultaneously on the 14-member Politburo and the Secretariat, Kulakov rode out the disastrous grain harvest of 1975 and was reportedly being groomed to succeed Brezhnev. Named Party Secretary for Agriculture in 1965 and Politburo member in 1971. Kulakov resigned his Secretariat post in 1976 to broaden his expertise. That year he delivered the keynote address at the traditional celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, and his attendance at Yugoslavia's congress last month confirmed...