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...week for a meeting with African leaders in Dar es Salaam. Two weeks later, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will visit the Middle East in hopes of setting in motion Arab-Israeli peace talks. He may also go to Moscow in March to meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...opening signals from the Carter Administration on the tone of future U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were contradictory, if not downright confusing. On the one hand, the new Administration, responding to some warm overtures from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, announced plans for quick resumption of the long-stalled talks on U.S.-Soviet arms limitations (see following story). But at the same time, in line with Carter's conviction that U.S. foreign policy ought to show more concern for human rights, Washington seemed willing to strain what might yet be a honeymoon of sorts with Moscow. The Administration...
Even as the Carter Administration was scolding the Kremlin for its mistreatment of Andrei Sakharov, the President and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev moved vigorously to resume the long-interrupted East-West dialogue on arms control. It was almost as if a referee had blown a whistle after a lengthy timeout; the diplomatic ball had suddenly bounced into play...
...give the appearance of carrying on business as usual. On his last full day in power, he telephoned Senators, Congressmen, old friends and several foreign leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev said that he would welcome a summit meeting with the new President provided that suitable progress was made between their two countries, apparently referring to arms control. Carter has already said that he would like to meet with Brezhnev if the Soviets showed a clear interest in easing world tensions...