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Sadat is steering an extremely careful course between the two superpowers. He knows that Kissinger would like to attempt another round of personal negotiations, which, it is hoped, would result in a further Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai. The Egyptian President also knows, however, that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who will visit Cairo in mid-January, will emphasize the need for an early resumption of the Geneva conference, through which the Soviets might recoup some of the Middle East influence they lost last year when Sadat turned to the West for support and Kissinger scored his disengagement successes. Moreover...
Ford then got ready to leave for Martinique to meet this weekend with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Giscard, meanwhile, had an impromptu dinner in Paris with Wilson, gave a warm welcome to Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, prepared to play host early this week to a summit meeting of the heads of government of the nine Common Market countries -and got out his bathing suit for the U.S.-French summit in Martinique. If any of the political jet-setters should get confused and propose a toast to his good friend "Helmut Ford" or his old colleague "Harold...
...discussion of energy was also on the agenda of the Giscard-Brezhnev meetings, which took place at the Château at Rambouillet, 30 miles southwest of Paris. They signed a five-year economic pact and, in exchange for aid and credits, the Soviet Union will sell
...principal reason for China's apparent patience is its continued preoccupation with Russia. Even as Kissinger was in Peking, Leonid Brezhnev was in Mongolia, emphatically rejecting a recent Chinese offer to sign a nonaggression treaty in exchange for mutual withdrawals from disputed border areas...
Nessen's real difficulties bloomed during the Asian trip. One reporter described his performance as a "disaster." Nessen, for instance, was absent when word came of the Ford-Brezhnev arms agreement because he was on a tour of Vladivostok. But Nessen's kowtowing statement that "the President will return home in triumph," and his condescending remark that the journalists "were dazzled ... amazed" by the arms agreement, really roused them. Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief...