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When the final communiqué was written and the last toast-so carefully worded-was delivered, the third summit meeting between President Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev came to a quiet close last week. It had lived up to its advertised and modest expectations, and yet the result, despite the cautious advance billing, was something of a letdown. The dialogue had continued, the spirit of detente was nudged ahead by some useful if minor pledges of cooperation in scientific and cultural fields. What was worrisome about Summit III-and deeply disturbing about the future-was what had been...
Throughout the seven-day trip, Nixon kept trying to emphasize his personal relationship with Brezhnev, grabbing for the Soviet leader's coattails. Ending one toast, for example, the President noted the great importance to peace of "the personal relations and the personal friendship that has been established by these meetings." But the Russians made it clear that they have no wish to hitch détente to Nixon's star, which will shine no longer than 1976, whatever the outcome of Watergate...
Nixon and Brezhnev settled down to the hard talks on arms limitations in an unsettling locale for the U.S. President-Yalta, the Black Sea site of the Big Three conference in 1945. Nixon and other Republicans had long charged that Franklin Roosevelt gave away postwar Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union during those talks. Hoping that Nixon would agree to meeting in the Livadiya Palace where F.D.R. had stayed, the Russians had refurbished the old summer residence of the czars. But when the White House objected, the meetings were moved to Brezhnev's handsome dacha, which was nearby...
...bargaining was long and arduous. It was conducted with a kind of harrowing frankness that Kissinger said would have been inconceivable at the first Nixon-Brezhnev summit in 1972 and, indeed, would have been judged to violate American intelligence restrictions. For 2½ hours, Nixon and Brezhnev met alone. Then Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko joined them for two more hours...
...Kremlin banquet was over, the plates removed, and in the spirit of good fellowship, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev rose to toast President Nixon. Then the Soviet leader launched a few intercontinental missives at the critics of détente. "Our American guests," he declared, "know better than we about those who oppose international détente, who favor whipping up the arms race and returning to the methods and procedures of the cold war." Everyone at the table knew whom Brezhnev was aiming at: Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 62, the blunt, stubborn, increasingly powerful leader...