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...spectacular news story, the kind that in more innocent times used to be called a "scoop." The Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev was coming to Boston to be treated for leukemia, or so announced the Boston Globe earlier this month. Trouble was, the Russian leader never showed up. Last week it became clear that the Globe had been the victim of another grand old journalistic tradition: the hoax...
...telling test of Brezhnev's detente policy will come even sooner-at the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) meeting that reopens in Geneva at the end of January. Top Administration officials in Washington concede that these second-stage talks, designed to implement the agreements reached by Brezhnev and President Ford at Vladivostok, will be "more difficult" as a result of the trade dispute. A Soviet diplomat issued the enigmatic warning that "there is a new psychological atmosphere." And at week's end Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin was summoned to Moscow for a top-level reassessment...
...Moscow summit, President Nixon and Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev agree on liberalizing U.S.-Soviet trade as an element of their ripening policy of detente...
...that the Congress expects to be followed, including minimum emigration quotas of 60,000 people a year. Though Jackson and Jewish leaders are now willing to let the amended bill pass, conservatives and labor leaders remain opposed. In Moscow, at a state dinner for U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon, Brezhnev offers a premonitory toast: "Attempts to condition the development of trade and economic ties by putting demands to the Soviet Union on questions totally unconnected with the trade and economic field and lying fully within the domestic competence of states are utterly irrelevant and unacceptable...
...Visiting Moscow, Henry Kissinger is lectured by an angry Leonid Brezhnev and handed a letter from Gromyko. The letter, which is not made public for two more months, denounces the Jackson Amendment and threatens rejection of the 1972 trade agreement...