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...Tiff. In a letter to Carter last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev rejected Carter's invitation to an early summit; any such meeting, said Brezhnev, must await agreement on a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. To transmit that message, Brezhnev called U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon to the Kremlin for a table-thumping attack on Carter's Soviet policy...
...Carter sees it, the Kremlin, while waging a propaganda battle with the U.S., continues to pursue the fundamental Soviet interest in SALT and détente. Brezhnev's letter and his dressing down of Toon were "decidedly less strong than the Tass account of the affair," noted a top White House aide. Besides, Brezhnev's meeting with Toon had its constructive side. TIME has learned that Brezhnev had put off meeting with Toon, who is perceived as a hardliner, despite Toon's repeated requests for a meeting after he arrived in Moscow last December; the Kremlin boss...
...nuclear weapons) and, he said, "these new ideas obviously take more time." Carter pointed out that talks with the Russians on SALT, the test ban and limiting arms sales were proceeding "with very good attitudes on the part of the Soviets." He said he would welcome a meeting with Brezhnev, although before such a meeting is scheduled, advisers to both leaders would have to be convinced that the personal chemistry between the two would ease rather than increase tensions...
Disquieting Result. It may be that the Soviets are miffed as much-or more -by Carter's style as by the substance of U.S. proposals. At a summit meeting with Brezhnev, Carter would probably defend his practice of promoting democracy and human rights, but would point out at the same time that he is not seeking to scuttle U.S.-Soviet detente. Carter said at his press conference that he sought a relationship with Brezhnev "not just to ratify a final agreement but to get to know one another...
...ordinary Soviet life. After two years in deep disfavor, Glazunov began a comeback when then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag asked that the artist do his portrait. In 1968 Glazunov finished a portrait of India's Indira Gandhi that the lady greatly admired. Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev reportedly felt much the same way about a portrait of himself that Glazunov, unbidden, executed for Brezhnev's 70th birthday last year...