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...When Anwar Sadat talks to an American leader, he talks of peace. When he talks to Brezhnev, he talks war." So said an Egyptian official, as he looked ahead to the long-scheduled mid-January visit to Cairo of Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Last week it appeared that the Egyptian President still preferred to talk peace rather than talk war on Russian terms. After a flurry of Egyptian and Soviet diplomatic activity, Brezhnev postponed indefinitely his state visits to Egypt, Syria and Iraq. In light of the Soviet Union's unmistakable desire to increase its influence...
Hunting Lodge. What prompted Brezhnev to call off his trip? Aides to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and newly appointed Minister of War General Mohamed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, who saw Brezhnev last week, insisted that the Soviet leader was in poor health. There were also reports that the Egyptian Cabinet members met him at a health sanatorium outside Moscow. It is quite possible that Brezhnev, 68, who has had a grueling series of diplomatic encounters, including trips to Paris, Mongolia and Vladivostok, may have a touch of grippe, which is-as usual in winter-widespread in Moscow...
...Soviet leaders are not yet seriously worried about Western-style inflation, largely because they do not also have to worry about Western-style recession. At the recent annual economic meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other officials reported that the Soviet Union's total output of goods and services had risen by 5% in 1974 and would climb by 6.5% in the new year when most Western economies will stand still or grow much more slowly. The Soviets plan to increase industrial production another 7% in 1975, emphasizing output of heavy...
...windfall from the rise in world oil prices, which has increased the amount of badly needed hard currency they earn from the sale of oil to Western countries. Things are going well enough for the Soviets to again postpone reforms in the way they manage their economy. Last year Brezhnev demanded "serious efforts to improve" planning. This time he apparently did not even mention reforms...
...Israelis are also apprehensive about the apparent drift toward war, though they still seem unprepared to make any concessions that might lead to meaningful negotiations. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon left the impression in a recent trip to Washington that on the eve of the Sadat-Brezhnev meeting in Cairo, the Israelis see little point in making a firm commitment for a further withdrawal either in Sinai or on the Golan...