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When the 35-nation European Security Conference convenes in Helsinki -possibly at the end of July-it will mark the fulfillment of one of Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's major foreign policy goals. The conference mil not only put the stamp of legitimacy on Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe, but will also be visible evidence of the detente between East and West on which Brezhnev has staked his reputation. TIME Correspondent John Shaw's three-year residence in the Soviet Union as Moscow bureau chief has spanned nearly the entire era of detente. Shortly before leaving...
...Brezhnev era draws to a close -the Party Chief is expected to retire next year-the prospects for the Kremlin have rarely looked so promising. In the eleven years of Brezhnev's reign, Moscow has achieved nuclear and hence political parity with the U.S., improved its image in the world, and extended trade and influence in Western Europe while maintaining political and economic control of Eastern Europe. The launching of Spyuz this week (see SCIENCE) is a particular source of pride. To be sure, the dispute with China remains an obsessive fact of life that Brezhnev's successors...
...general, the Soviets have recovered from the international opprobrium that followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow...
They also share a common antagonism toward Kissinger's obvious reluctance to share foreign policy decision-making with Congress, most notably on the Cyprus issue. Contends Rosenthal: "No doubt dealing with Brademas, Sarbanes and myself is less exciting than dealing with Mao and Brezhnev, but he [Kissinger] must deal with us and with other members of Congress because we reflect the will of the American people." That could possibly be true, but it is precisely because the Cyprus situation has stirred relatively little public debate in the U.S. that a concentrated lobbying effort can have great impact...
...negotiators at Geneva are under pressure to break the impasse in order to have a SALT II agreement ready for signature when Brezhnev visits Washington later this year. A new treaty will supersede the 1972 SALT I accord, which temporarily froze the total number of strategic missiles but gave the Soviets an advantage in the absolute number of missiles. That agreement was made, despite strong Pentagon opposition, to offset the commanding MIRV lead the U.S. then enjoyed. SALT II will, among other things, limit the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to one anti-ballistic missile site each, instead of the two ABMs...