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...nonalignment? Or does détente serve to reinforce the status quo-that is, a world of a few strong nations and many weak ones-and hence make the need for a coordinated policy all the more imperative? Apparently hoping to offset such a conclusion. Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev sent a message to Boumedienne arguing that the issue was not between big and small or rich and poor but "between the forces of socialism and reaction...
...Algerian President tactfully made no public reply. But Brezhnev's thesis did not exactly fit the mood of the assembly. As Algeria's leading Arabic daily Al Chaab observed on the eve of the conference: "Nowadays the division is between rich (the others) and poor (us)." In his keynote speech, Boumedienne hammered on the economic theme. He charged that the colonial powers have used Third World raw materials for their own enrichment and castigated both the maneuverings of multinational companies and the monetary crises created by big-power policies. After calling for a common monetary policy among developing...
When President Nixon and Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev met in Moscow last year, none of the agreements they signed were hailed more than those limiting strategic nuclear weapons. In 2½ years of painstaking negotiations, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union had made concessions. Last week, it seemed, the U.S. may have given more than it got. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger announced that the Russians had scored a major breakthrough in weapons technology by successfully testing "in recent weeks" missiles with multiple warheads that could be aimed at separate targets. The Soviet advance has clearly put in jeopardy...
Conversations of the recent Soviet-American summit meetings will not be available to the public for years, if ever. Until then, one can only speculate about the kind of humor punctuating the conversations between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev...
SOVIET JEWS: As far as I know, we did not see any positive results from the Brezhnev meeting in Washington for Jewish emigration from Russia. Perhaps something will come, but for the time being I do not see any improvements. The Jews in America will have to be the party to take care of it. It's not an Israeli question...