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...become a political issue. Looking grim and combative, he told a news conference last week that Moscow's meddling in Angola threatens to scuttle both detente and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Nonetheless, Kissinger made a date to meet in Moscow this week with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in an effort to rescue detente by achieving a breakthrough on both SALT and Angola. The situation...
SALT. The talks have been stalemated since July, even though Brezhnev and President Ford agreed at Vladivostok in November 1974 to limit each side's strategic nuclear weapons to 2,400 long-range missiles and bombers. Of this number, only 1,320 could carry MIRVS-clusters of independently aimed warheads. But negotiators have not been able to agree on how the limits should be applied to two new weapons systems: 1) the U.S. cruise missile, a 1,200-2,000-mile-range jet-propelled bomb that can be launched from an airplane, ship or submarine, and 2) the Soviet...
Kissinger disclosed last week that Moscow has promised a "significant modification" of its bargaining position, and the U.S. has also prepared a new proposal, despite some misgivings on the part of the Pentagon. Even if Kissinger and Brezhnev agree in principle on a compromise, however, a final pact would require up to two months of further negotiations on details...
However, U.S. analysts believe Brezhnev may be amenable to Kissinger's arguments. Said one high American official: "You can be sure that Brezhnev is reluctant to throw away ten years of detente for the sake of a client in Africa...
...attack on the General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. Despite Israeli protestations, the U.S. may, in the end, accept some modification of Resolutions 242 and 338, such as inserting a reference to "the legitimate interests of the Palestinian people," the language first used by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in their joint communique of June 1973. At the debate, the Egyptians will back the P.L.O. but also urge the Palestinians not to push too hard. Reason: Cairo does not want to provoke a U.S. veto, which would too clearly label Washington as an intransigent opponent of the Palestinians. Egyptian...