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...Carter took office-and even before. The wary cooperation between the superpowers, which was the keystone of the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy and was widely labeled (somewhat to their dismay) detente, reached its peak with the balmy summit meetings of Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and 1973. But detente was never a condition totally free of East-West conflicts...
Just as the U.S. has remained suspicious of Soviet intentions and good faith, Brezhnev quite possibly began to feel that Russia was being denied unfairly some of the most important payoffs he had hoped to get from detente. Russia's exports...
...months. Other matters that are sure to be discussed will be the latest developments in the Middle East, the continued Soviet intervention in Africa and the mounting harassment of American citizens in Moscow. Vance will give Gromyko a personal message from Carter addressed to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, warning that the Shcharansky and Ginzburg trials could injure U.S.Soviet relations. Carter has already ordered a review of all U.S.-Soviet cooperative agreements to find ways to dramatize U.S. concern about the case, and Vance formally announced that Presidential Science Adviser Frank Press would not, as previously planned, attend the sixth annual...
...Vance and Gromyko resolve a couple of the key problems that have been blocking SALT II, the remaining issues could be left until September, when Gromyko will be in the U.S. for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Should those talks succeed, Carter might meet with Brezhnev in October to work out the final details and initial a draft treaty...
...another of those seesaw weeks in U.S.-Soviet relations. First, Jimmy Carter spoke soothingly at a press conference of his "deep belief that the underlying relationship between ourselves and the Soviets is stable" and that he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev want "to have better friendship." Next, both governments calmly carried out a trade: the U.S. released two accused Soviet spies from jail in New Jersey, while the Soviets set free an American charged with currency violations in Moscow. But then Soviet authorities suddenly summoned two American reporters to a Moscow court and charged them with "denigrating the honor...