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Whether the Soviets will ultimately honor the agreement is a matter of conjecture. If they feel that they are not sufficiently benefiting from the trade bill, they might back down. Last week Leonid Brezhnev made a speech in which he called Jackson's demands "utterly irrelevant and unacceptable." But the tirade was viewed in Washington as the usual Soviet tactic of publicly denying what they have privately conceded...
...efforts at diplomacy. Next week he will meet with Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez at Nogales, on the Arizona-Mexico border. In November, Ford will travel to the Far East to visit with Japanese and South Korean leaders. During that trip he may meet with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, depending on Kissinger's success in an upcoming meeting with Soviet officials in Moscow. In December, Ford will hold talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Washington and later that month with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing on the Caribbean island of Martinique...
...judge by the Soviet news treatment of Richard Nixon's fall from power, the former President was an innocent hounded from office by political enemies and the press. For months, Tass and Pravda completely ignored the scandal, presumably to avoid embarrassing Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who had personally aligned himself with Nixon in negotiating détente and who had three times held summit meetings with him. When the official press finally noted Nixon's resignation, it did so with such a mixture of fantasy and fallacy that an American would have a hard time recognizing the familiar...
...does the Kremlin bother with what amounts to its own fantastic Watergate coverup? Aside from protecting Brezhnev, the outrageous distortions of what really happened to Nixon are obviously tailored to fit the official conspiratorial view of the U.S. system. Says one Western diplomat in Moscow: "It jibes with what are probably their basic beliefs about how America operates. It also fits the deep-rooted Slavic feeling about plots." Adds a Scandinavian official posted in the Soviet capital: "No one wants to raise the question of popular pressure bringing down a government that lies. Imagine what that could mean here...
Actually, Moscow has been striving to depersonalize détente for some time. During a banquet at the June summit, for example, Nixon exuberantly toasted his "personal relationship" with Brezhnev; in the Russian translation that came out later the word personal was deleted. By early last week, said a Western diplomat in Moscow, "the Soviet view was that it is regrettable, but not the end of the world, if Nixon goes." The Soviets were relieved when Gerald Ford announced that he would keep Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Russians also hope that a political honeymoon for Ford might mean...