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...most formidable walls are right within the White House because a fundamental change has taken place there since Kissinger visited Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow last month to negotiate a SALT pact. Politics have been injected into Gerald Ford's foreign policy. For the first time, his political advisers, notably Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have matched if not surpassed the Secretary of State in their influence on presidential decisions about SALT...
Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is a past master of give and take, Russian style. At one point during the most recent Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Moscow, Brezhnev took a fancy to the expensive gold Omega wristwatch worn by State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Brezhnev asked for it, offering in exchange a cheap Russian pocket watch...
Sonnenfeldt protested that the watch was a gift from his mother-in-law, and that she might be less than delighted at such a one-sided deal. With that, Brezhnev left the room, returning quickly with a somewhat better chrome-plated wristwatch-a Swedish-made Eternamat. As a sweetener, he hinted that Sonnenfeldt might get his own watch back if and when there is a final SALT agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Sonnenfeldt's mother-in-law might be miffed for quite a while...
...Kissinger must sell the proposed agreement to the Pentagon and Congress. If he can do it, Ford and Brezhnev will be free to hold their long-delayed summit in Washington later this year...
...Communism," he writes. "What changes is not the Stalinist system but the rigor with which it is applied." Since a regime cannot shoot or imprison every one year after year, a relaxation of repression or an increase in consumer goods may work better for a time. But "Khrushchev and Brezhnev are no less Stalinist than Stalin . . . They are merely less bloodthirsty...