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...Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk to help negotiate an end to the war in Cambodia, the Chinese did not even reply. On the other hand, the Soviets appear eager to move ahead with detente and nuclear-arms negotiations. Ford plans to hold a summit in Washington with Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev this summer...
East-West detente is still a primary pur suit. Among the items on the agenda of detente are a Strategic Arms Limitation agreement, to be negotiated at a meeting between President Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev later this year, and a summit in Helsinki next summer, winding up Brezhnev's cherished project of a European Security Conference...
Reason for that wall of silence: by not publicly admitting the existence of Jennifer, the U.S. hopes to permit the Soviets to avoid any official response that could damage relations between the two nations. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is due to visit the U.S. this summer, and CIA officials remember all too well that Moscow used the U-2 spy-plane incident to ruin a summit in 1960. Last week, when the Jennifer saga broke, the acting Soviet ambassador in Washington sent a strong cable to Moscow advising the Kremlin to make a firm protest to Washington. But Moscow...
...Budapest last week when he turned to the guest of honor and expressed his "sincere thanks" for the Soviet Union's "readiness to help" Hungary in its serious economic plight. It was an ironic gesture. Kádár was expressing gratitude to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev for extending a loan of perhaps $40 million that Hungary urgently needs-to meet the newly increased price of Soviet...
...Regan took first prize in news feature pictures from the World Press Photo competition in Amsterdam for his evocative glimpse of Ted Kennedy walking in Moscow with his arm around his son Teddy Jr. (TIME, Jan. 6). Kennedy reciprocated by snapping a shot of Regan with a grinning Leonid Brezhnev...