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...early morning jogs through Red Square. "I never saw a people so peaceful and orderly," he said. Looking a paunchy 235 Ibs., he also lumbered through two-round exhibition matches with three top Soviet heavyweights. The highlight of the trip was a 35-minute interview with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Recalled Ali: "He gave me a hug, and I gave him a hug. All he talked was peace, peace, peace. I felt like the black President...
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev warned darkly about a "return, if not to the cold war, then at least to a 'chilly' war." Speaking in Prague, he accused NATO of accelerating the arms race. There may have been an element of grand standing in his statements, but they nonetheless signified that the Soviets were in no mood to budge on the issues that divide East and West. Said a veteran Western diplomat in Moscow: "It's the worst I've seen in a long time. They're not backing down an inch...
...hard-line stance that Brzezinski has been urging all along. Indeed, at this point even Vance is not far behind. Said a senior State Department official: "This is not a political reaction. It's not like Panama. This is a threatening situation, and it's coming from the guy [Brezhnev] who can really let us have...
...might provoke the Kremlin into tightening its control over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with no Soviet troops on its territory, were treated...
...limited expectations for the conference seemed to be confirmed by the conspicuous absence of the leaders of the two nuclear superpowers, Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter. While the Soviet chief might be excused because of his increasingly obvious ill health, Carter had been expected to use the U.N. forum to repeat his inaugural call for the "elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth." But by a coincidence, a full-scale meeting of NATO partners had been scheduled for the week following the opening of the U.N. conference. Carter is planning to argue compellingly at the NATO summit...