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Every Turn. During the 22 months of negotiations that preceded Helsinki, diplomats from Bucharest and Belgrade tried at every turn to gain guarantees against outside interference in their internal affairs. The thrust of their efforts was to seek a repudiation of the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev proclaimed after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. It asserts that the Soviet Union has the right to come to the assistance of any fraternal country where socialism is endangered...
Soviet officials now act as if the whole idea were a Western concoction. "There never was any such thing as 'the Brezhnev Doctrine,' " a Soviet official said recently with a perfectly straight face. "Such talk was a propaganda fabrication by the bourgeois capitalist press." When pressed, however, Soviet officials concede that "Socialist Internationalism"-the principle that the Soviet Union has the right to come to the rescue of socialist states abroad-is still very much in force...
...Hopeful Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, that required the U.S.S.R. to allow freer emigration of minorities, especially Jews. At the time, the Soviets grumbled that they would get along without U.S. imports rather than allow such interference in their internal affairs. As recently as three months ago, Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev greeted a U.S. delegation headed by Treasury Secretary William Simon by asking: "Which one of you blocked the trade agreement...
During the second meeting, they discussed SALT and MBFR in greater detail. Although both Ford and Brezhnev made pro forma statements that some limited progress had been achieved, the two sides adjourned without any substantive compromise...
...that the Russians are a bit concerned that Cunhal may push Lisbon leftward too quickly. If Moscow is too blatantly associated with such developments, it could galvanize the West into taking some kind of concerted, direct action to help the moderates. This might then jeopardize Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's cherished dream of détente. Washington has made it unmistakably clear that it will not tolerate any meddling by Moscow in Portugal's internal affairs. Shortly before flying to the Helsinki Conference, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that "to the extent the Soviet Union...