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However his Middle Eastern diplomacy turns out, there are plenty of other challenges lying ahead to make Kissinger want to stay on as Secretary of State. The SALT talks are now taking place in Geneva, and the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev is still scheduled to visit the U.S. this summer for a summit meeting with President Ford. In the meantime, with an unfriendly Congress to woo, the Secretary of State realizes that his most delicate diplomacy may have to be performed right in his own backyard...
...support in maintaining the Middle East momentum. Kissinger's suggestion that the Russians back off from their persistent demands to reopen the Geneva conference was more or less rebuffed. Gromyko was more interested in other discussions on SALT, U.S.Soviet trade, the European Security Conference, and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit to Washington next summer. On Geneva, however, the two could agree only that the conference should reconvene "at an early date." In the involved semantics of diplomacy, Kissinger's aides insisted, it signaled that the Soviets were not likely to obstruct the next round of negotiations...
...question, Mrs. Thatcher had breakfasted at Claridges with Henry Kissinger (who pronounced her "quite a girl"). Then she went to the House of Commons for her first serious parliamentary skirmish with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had just returned from a visit with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow and was feeling ebullient. Such dealings with the Soviets were fine, declared Mrs. Thatcher, provided they "never lull this House or this country into a sense of false security." In an unsubtle reference to the Tory leader's admitted lack of expertise in foreign affairs, Wilson condescendingly retorted: "Some...
Thus were seven weeks of rumors dissipated in a puff of smoke. Since Brezhnev vanished from public view on Dec. 24, he has been widely reported to be medically and politically moribund. Some Kremlinologists predicted that if he failed to greet Wilson, who was making his first state visit to Moscow in seven years, that would confirm the direst of long-distance diagnoses. On the eve of the British Prime Minister's visit, the respected Paris daily Le Monde cited "informed Soviet sources" as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a "brutal" relapse from cancer, or, alternatively, cardiovascular disease. Other...
...Ebullient as ever, looking vigorous and rested (not to mention 10 lbs. lighter), Brezhnev discussed European security, trade and the Middle East with Wilson. Although his voice seemed a bit more slurred than usual, he made a 20-rninute speech before Soviet television cameras, giving the impression of a man who was fit and in command-at least as far as anyone could...