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Interestingly, that urge never seems to overwhelm people like Leonid Brezhnev, who keeps delaying his trip to the U.S. because we have not worked out anything new for him to negotiate on arms limitation. When he can make a deal, he will be on our doorstep...
...negotiations over such vital items as the future of Korea, the status of Taiwan and preparations for President Ford's first visit to China, scheduled for December. The Chinese feel that last summer's Helsinki summit on European cooperation was the Munich of the '70s-with Brezhnev the Hitler, Kissinger the Chamberlain, and Senator Henry Jackson, a foe of détente, the Churchill. They are also sensitive to Soviet attempts to penetrate Southeast Asia...
Possible Setback. For the Soviets the deal buys time to improve the nation's badly functioning agricultural system. Internal Soviet political stress is building over this year's crop disaster, which Western analysts feel could be a setback for Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Says one diplomat: "The grain situation could put the leadership and Brezhnev on the spot." The necessity of buying grain from the capitalist U.S. is expected to be a touchy issue. Brezhnev can argue within the Politburo, however, that the U.S. wants Soviet oil as much as the Soviets want U.S. grain...
...Would it be possible for [Soviet Party Chief Leonid] Brezhnev to come to the U.S. before a SAL T agreement is worked...
...itself seems about to disappear. After the SALT agreement, the Pentagon began work on a Safeguard site near Grand Forks, N. Dak., but Congress decided that a second installation at Washington, D.C., was not worth the cost. Last year, Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev reduced the ABM limit to one site each...