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...roving diplomat has served as administrator of the Marshall Plan in Paris, chief negotiator of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty and Ambassador to Moscow. Always a blunt and clear-eyed evaluator of Soviet intentions, Harriman recently returned to Moscow for a three-hour private discussion with Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, he discussed the state of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...BREZHNEV'S MOOD TOWARD DÉTENTE. I was most impressed when Brezhnev told me, "The steps we take now must be irreversible." He thinks he and Nixon must deal with arms control directly; it shouldn't be left to technical experts. The time has come for tough trading at the highest level...
Watergate is not really understood in Western Europe, let alone in Russia. As far as Brezhnev is concerned, Nixon is President and therefore someone to be dealt with respectfully and seriously...
Beaming exultantly, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev concluded their first summit meeting two years ago by signing a treaty that was to be a first step toward limiting the development and deployment of strategic arms. The second step has been much more difficult. SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) is the thorniest topic Nixon and Brezhnev confront. Their ability to agree on it will determine whether the U.S. and Russia will discontinue the costly and potentially dangerous search for nuclear advantage...
...same time that the Soviet leaders have been pursuing détente internationally, they have embarked on an intensified program to prevent the thaw from reaching their own people. Ever since the Brezhnev-Nixon meetings began in Moscow two years ago, Soviet officials have conducted a massive "vigilance" campaign to warn ordinary citizens of the danger of closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home...