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...Russians, for their part, seemed eager to start off on agreeable terms with the Carter Administration. Early in the week, at a Kremlin dinner for 150 U.S. business and Government leaders attending a trade meeting in Moscow, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev talked over their heads toward Plains in urging a speedup in the arms limitation negotiations. At least partly, Brezhnev's remark seemed to reflect Soviet sensitivity over speculation in the West that the Kremlin would aggressively move to test the toughness of the new Administration (TIME...
Treasury Secretary William Simon, one of the guests at the Moscow dinner, carried home a direct message to Carter from Brezhnev, who sought to assure the President-elect that he had no intention of "testing" or embarrassing him after he moved into the White House in January. While welcome, the Brezhnev message did not signal any shift in negotiating specifics...
...maintain calm in the Soviet Union's backyard, while it deals with Washington and Peking, Moscow has been trying to mend a few fences in Eastern Europe. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew to Belgrade-his first journey to Yugoslavia in five years. The effusive Brezhnev greeted Yugoslav President Josi f Broz Tito with three kisses and an exuberant bear hug. This was one more Slavic smooch than usual -perhaps an index of how anxious Moscow is to improve relations with the independent Yugoslavs. At an official dinner at the Federal Executive Council Building, Brezhnev ridiculed...
Improved Relations. This week, Brezhnev carries his wooing of East European leaders to Bucharest. It will be the first official visit to Rumania by the Soviet leader since he succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party boss twelve years ago. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu has long offended Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest...
...growing restive over shortages of consumer goods and that the East Germans are increasingly bridling at their leaders' refusal to grant more personal freedoms. Meanwhile the Yugoslavs remain skeptical of Soviet intentions. Foreign observers thought there was as much nervousness as amusement in the laughter that followed Brezhnev's reference last week to the Soviet Union as a "bloodthirsty wolf." Said Aleksander Grlickov, a leading Yugoslav Communist: "We Yugoslavs laugh even when we are serious and uneasy...