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...most hopeful sign that they might be making progress was yet an other of Henry Kissinger's sudden, surprise trips, this one to Moscow, where he began a series of private meetings over the Middle East crisis with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Kissinger had spent much of the week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington, but he managed to cover his departure with a typical, though perhaps inevitable, Kissinger feint; he spent the evening at a glittering dinner party hosted by Huang Chen, the head of China's liaison office in Washington. That affair had been...
Kissinger slipped away from the party before midnight and jetted out of Washington aboard his presidential aircraft about 1 a.m. Saturday. The trip had been "requested" by Brezhnev, and it was clearly a compelling request. Kissinger was accompanied by no fewer than nine State Department officials, ineluding longtime Middle East Negotiator Joseph Sisco. Thus the spirit of détente, which pledges both nations to cooperate in cooling off dangerously tense areas of conflict, seemed alive and reasonably well, despite some menacing appearances to the contrary...
Nixon said his own foreign policy of detente, his firmness in past international crises and his personal acquaintance with Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev played a role Thursday in avoiding a more serious-confrontation...
Soviet Party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev said in Moscow yesterday that the Soviet Union has sent representatives to the war zone at the request of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat...
...Brezhnev did not say whether the Soviets had sent military personnel...