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...women of power. But history is biography, as Emerson said long ago. There are those like Zbigniew Brzezinski, a foreign affairs scholar now advising Carter, who believe that understanding between these leading figures is more important than ever. That is one reason why Carter wants a meeting with Brezhnev. After mildly insulting each other for six months across 5,000 miles, Carter believes they might strike a harmonious chord over caviar...
...proposal for drastic cuts as one-sided, as a threat to their military security and as a violation of the established mode of U.S.-Soviet diplomacy. It was a mistake for Vance to spring a sharp revision of the weapons ceilings, which had been approved by Ford and Brezhnev at the 1974 Vladivostok summit, on Soviet leaders whose basic conservatism and advancing age (Politburo average: 67) make them unable to respond quickly to changes. Carter and Vance also gave the press details of the new proposals; the Soviet leaders are accustomed to the kind of confidential diplomacy skillfully practiced...
Washington's most serious problem is with its strongest ally, West Germany. Schmidt regards Carter as some kind of misguided zealot. The Chancellor has charged that the President was much too categorical in his SALT proposals, leaving Brezhnev little room for negotiation. Schmidt further feels that Washington's grapeshot human rights drive may be less effective in helping dissenters in Communist countries than would quiet diplomatic pressure in the Kissinger fashion. What deeply concerns him among other things is that deterioration in East-West relations could jeopardize the continuing emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland and the U.S.S.R...
...Would you still like to get together with President Brezhnev...
...choices open to the U.S. during those years that Kissinger lived at the pinnacle of power. It will be a book with people talking and events happening and now and then some professorial thoughts. He has discovered in his own papers forgotten nuggets from his hours with Mao and Brezhnev and Nixon and Haldeman...