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...Brezhnev's decision to postpone his Cairo trip improved peace prospects, since it left the way clear for more Kissinger-style bilateral negotiations before a resumption of the Geneva Conference. Even though Cairo and Jerusalem are seemingly closer in their views on the topics for the next stage of negotiations, it will take delicate diplomacy by the Secretary to bring them together. Israeli Premier Rabin last week, in an interview with the Paris daily Le Figaro, announced that he was willing to return the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes in Sinai to Egypt-in return for a peace treaty...
...Egypt the Iranian financial aid was particularly welcome. The country is badly battered economically; one of the principal reasons why the Egyptians would have welcomed Brezhnev would have been the chance to renegotiate Soviet debts. The total is a closely guarded secret in Cairo, but it has been estimated to range as high as $7 billion. Cairo is anxious for a Sinai settlement because it will generate Suez Canal revenues of at least $390 million a year and also provide a badly needed 36.5 million bbl. of oil annually if the Israelis return Abu Rudeis...
Long-simmering rumors about Leonid Brezhnev's failing health boiled up last week into a wild journalistic borsch of speculation. In Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East, newsmen variously reported that the 68-year-old Soviet party chief had been struck down by a staggering variety of ailments, ranging from abscessed teeth, bursitis, gout, influenza, pneumonia to heart attack and-most ominously-leukemia. The Boston Globe carried the electrifying tale that Brezhnev was momentarily expected to arrive at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center for treatment of this deadly blood disease. Despite Brezhnev's conspicuous nonappearance at Logan...
Certainly there was no hard evidence to support the rumors that Brezhnev was on the brink of physical or political disablement. Nonetheless, a few faint signs and portents over the past two months pointed to a possible diminution of Brezhnev's vigor and perhaps even of his commanding position in the Kremlin. Some observers at the Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford thought that Brezhnev was not his usual doughty, ebullient self. Although he held up well during his initial seven-hour meeting with the U.S. President, he slept late the following day and looked peaked. In Paris...
...Pajamas. The mystery of Brezhnev's health was compounded by the medical and diplomatic ambiguities involved in the abrupt cancellation of his scheduled trip to Cairo. Although this was apparently related to Soviet-Egyptian diplomatic disagreements, an unprecedented effort was made in Moscow to display Brezhnev as a sick man. Summoned to Moscow to be informed of the cancellation, the Egyptian Foreign and Defense ministers were given white surgical gowns before being received by Brezhnev, who was lying on a couch in pajamas. According to the Egyptian visitors, the Soviet leader told them that his doctor had ordered...