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...Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added his chapter in Vladivostok, spending the night with Leonid Brezhnev to conclude details of a nuclear-arms-limitation agreement...
After long thinking, I reached the conclusion this will not solve the problem of the psychological barrier between us and Israel, because I'm inviting the five big powers as if I am going to hide behind them. And the Israelis have no confidence in Brezhnev if he comes. [China'sChairman] Hua Kuo-feng supports the Arab cause, and the Israelis will not be happy with him. At that same time I was thinking of praying [during Greater Bairam, the Feast of Sacrifice] in Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. This is one of the three holiest places...
...devastating as any Mongol invasion. At least 40 million Soviet citizens (15% of the population) had been laid low with fever, coughing, headaches, aching bones and a lingering lethargy. By all accounts?none of them officially confirmed, of course?the ultimate ranking victim was Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When his 71st birthday rolled around last week, Brezhnev, who rarely passes up any opportunity to accept honors or congratulations, was nowhere to be seen. In fact, he had canceled all recent appointments. At his last public appearance, at the Kremlin funeral of a Soviet marshal, he was coughing frequently...
...Leonid Brezhnev remains enigmatic, refusing a meeting. Carter wants to look at Brezhnev, feel his grip, watch his eyes. It is Carter's view that the Soviet threat has diminished this year. Carter has been gratified, even frightened a little, by the narrative of American technological achievement and potential that has come across his desk. The Soviets cannot match us. There is not only better technical know-how in the U.S.; the inability of the Soviet system to induce uniform excellence is a drag on its effort to catch up. Carter is the first modern President to appreciate...
Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland insists that the poorer than anticipated Soviet harvest was "probably" caused by a late period of bad weather and does not simply reflect poor intelligence. Indeed, Agriculture picture analysts say they were revising their estimates of the Soviet harvest downward before Brezhnev made his announcement...