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Through his envoys and during his visit to Paris, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has let it be known that the sensitive and secretive Kremlin is furious about Carter's public approach to diplomacy. In Brezhnev's view, Carter's "ideological warfare" on human rights is hostile to detente. It appears Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance miscalculated when they reasoned earlier this year that their human rights offensive need not impede arms negotiations with the Soviets. Official Washington is gloomy about the prospects for a new SALT treaty by Oct. 3, when the present five-year...
...less rude was Brezhnev's decision to pay an unscheduled visit to Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris and Giscard's Gaullist archrival. Rather pettily, Giscard had planned to ignore Chirac, but the cunning mayor wrote Brezhnev asking him to stop by. Brezhnev was only too happy to accommodate Chirac, embarrass Giscard and do a little meddling in French politics. Gaullist officials gleefully celebrated their political victory. "The principle has been established." crowed one. "Now Chirac will see every visiting chief of state...
Ironically, France's leading Communist was every bit as anxious to avoid Brezhnev as Chirac, its leading antiCommunist, was to receive him. The French party boss, Georges Marchais, striving to burnish his image as a moderate Eurocommunist, announced that he "did not need to see Brezhnev every time he comes to Paris." Since the Kremlin is currently intensifying its criticism of Western parties (see following story), Brezhnev was quick to take the hint. The two did not meet...
...meandering public statements on détente, Brezhnev was clearly talking as much to Jimmy Carter as to his host. The French President, who later quoted Brezhnev as having emphasized that U.S.-Soviet relations were "in a difficult phase," answered back on his own. Military détente, he said, must be accompanied by "ideological détente," i.e., a relaxation of non-military tension between East and West -an idea that infuriated Brezhnev during Giscard's 1975 visit to Moscow...
...Leonid Brezhnev in Paris grumbled about the U.S., that was nothing compared with the tongue-lashing administered by the Kremlin to fellow Communists in Western Europe. An unsigned 5,000-word article in New Times -a Soviet weekly devoted primarily to foreign affairs-savaged Spanish Communist Party Leader Santiago Carrillo with the kind of language normally reserved for the Chinese. He was charged with advocating "crude anti-Sovietism," making "slanderous allegations" and taking "unsavory positions...