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...after the North Vietnamese launched their Easter offensive in 1972. The Communist onslaught created "a sense of panic in the White House" that the Saigon regime might collapse. Kissinger, who went to Moscow in April to set up Richard Nixon's May summit with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, tried to enlist Russian aid in containing the North Vietnamese drive. During his visit, Kissinger told the Russians that the U.S. would no longer insist on withdrawal of all North Vietnamese troops from the South after a cease-fire-a stunning reversal of the previous U.S. position...
...nine nations of the European Common Market; the lone survivor is Pierre Werner of Luxembourg. It is a matter of debate as to how Moscow reads the auguries. Surely the West's weakness at the top cannot be welcome to Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who has staked his hopes for detente largely on his personal dealings with Nixon, the departed Brandt and the late French President Georges Pompidou...
...orator" is clearly Leonid Brezhnev, whom Khrushchev seems to be castigating for the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...sensitive issues. Speaking at Moscow University, Ted asked his audience how much they thought the Soviet Union should spend on defense. His interpreter announced abruptly that the Senator was feeling ill. "I'm perfectly all right," protested Ted. Later, after a four-hour talk with Premier Leonid Brezhnev, Kennedy, with Wife Joan, Daughter Kara, 14, and Son Teddy Jr., 12, went out to meet the people, American style, at a wedding party in a Moscow restaurant and at a Leningrad factory, where Teddy Jr. was toasted. Said Joan: "It's just like being in Fitchburg, Mass., during...
...mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able to accept the status quo in the Middle East today. The Soviet leader com plained that...