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...position on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Once the London talks were finished, Carter planned to do some direct Middle East business on the way home. In Geneva, he was due to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad, fresh from five days of talks in Moscow with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, another fellow who is anxious to play an important role in the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations...
...positive note. Israel's then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was hopeful, although he and Carter never established any kind of personal rapport. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, on the other hand, was personable and positively ebullient about peace prospects. Meanwhile, the news reaching Washington about the Assad-Brezhnev talks was upbeat: the Soviets seemed eager to resume a leadership role at comprehensive peace talks in Geneva-a role that Henry Kissinger had largely ruled out for them in 1973 when he launched his step-by-step negotiations. While taking care to mute their criticisms of U.S. policy, the Soviets quickly...
...singular display of gall, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week warned other nations against "meddling" in the Zaïrian war. Although there is no proof of direct Soviet involvement, it seems more and more certain that the Katangese rebels were armed and aided by Moscow's client, Angola, if not by the Cubans in that country...
Kapiloff, who plans to bring the petition to Harvard within the next two weeks, said he expects to collect several thousand faculty and student signatures on the petition, which he will send to Soviet Communist Party leaders Leonid I. Brezhnev before the Belgrade convention on human rights this spring...
...Angrily) I think that is an exaggerated analysis of the relationship; I don't accept it, and I don't think the Soviets do either. Just look at Brezhnev's [conciliatory remarks last week at the Kremlin dinner for Fidel Castro...