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SOVIET UNION. After Ford lands at Vladivostok (see box) on Saturday, his hosts intend to whisk him by helicopter to a remote, wooded compound of guest houses some twelve miles away for his talks with Brezhnev. Soviet leaders pushed hard during Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recent visit to Moscow for the meeting with Ford. They know little about Ford except that as a conservative Representative he supported high defense budgets...
...Brezhnev wants to test Ford's negotiating skills at first hand, as well as learn how badly Ford has been weakened by the lingering effects of Watergate, the recession and the Republican disaster at the polls this month. One effect of those crises has been to nudge detente off center stage; the meeting provides a chance to regain the lost momentum. Thus Ford must expect to be probed on the Middle East, European security matters and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. But Brezhnev was expected not to try to crowd Ford in their first meeting, only to take...
...momentum to Middle East negotiations, he had talked about oil prices with the Shah of Iran and King Faisal (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) and had discussed East-West relations with Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest and aging Josip Broz Tito, now 82, in Belgrade, as well as with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. As a small token of the Soviet party chiefs hopes for a happy Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka, 44, and his family to fly to the U.S. Kudirka attracted world attention four years ago when...
Kissinger had discussed his program with various heads of state on his latest country-spanning diplomatic mission. All had responded favorably, except for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. A reserve system would preclude the kind of secrecy-shrouded, bargain-hunting raids on the Western wheat market that have become a hallmark of Soviet trade. The Russians, who guard agricultural intelligence as a state secret, are also hesitant to begin sharing crop information. A high State Department official noted the irony of this ideological role reversal: "We are talking about planning while the Communists are using our old market methods to meet...
...talks between the two leaders that they break down some of the unreasonable fears on both sides and agree at least on guidelines for continuing negotiations by Dr. Kissinger and our other officials on SALT and other matters in order that more comprehensive agreements can be reached when Mr. Brezhnev visits the U.S. next spring. W. Averell Harriman Washington...