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...light in their eyes.) For one thing, Gromyko brought along Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, the Soviets' First Deputy Minister of Defense and chief of the Soviet general staff. His uniformed appearance was the first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought a thick folder marked Pervaya Beseda (First Session). Noticing that Chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, on Vance's right, had only a blank legal pad, Gromyko asked jokingly whether that meant the Americans had neglected to bring any new proposals...
...Kremlin in the way of a SALT II agreement: the Russians should either agree to a drastic reduction in strategic weapons or defer such problems as the Soviet Backfire bomber and U.S. Cruise missile and accept a simple continuation of the modest limitations on offensive weapons tentatively set by Brezhnev and Ford at Vladivostok in 1974. Brezhnev, stung by both the human rights campaign and what sounded like an arms ultimatum, coldly rejected the proposals and in March of last year scolded a red-faced Vance in Moscow...
...General Kurt Waldheim's principal assistant in the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, he was familiar with Soviet positions on strategic arms. For example, Shevchenko had been instrumental in organizing next month's special U.N. session on disarmament, which, it was reported, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev planned to attend...
...conventional conflict escalating into a nuclear holocaust. But, as supporters note, NATO is a defensive alliance and the neutron bombs would only be used on allied territory to beat back a Soviet attack. Soviet propagandists have played artfully on the debate. In Pravda, for instance, President Leonid Brezhnev called the bomb "an inhuman weapon." But in the same article he warned that the Soviets might proceed with their own neutron bomb if the U.S. goes ahead with production. In fact, the Soviets are indeed working on their own version of the weapon...
...Jersey candidate for the U.S. Senate on always being labeled a basketball star: "I suppose some day, when I've served in the Senate with some distinction and am visiting Russia, I'll read, 'Senator Bill Bradley, the former New York Knick, met today with Leonid Brezhnev...