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...President's mood, said Warren, was "very good"; he discussed the business at hand "with determination." But after the upbeat and invigorating week of the Brezhnev summit, Nixon found himself hemmed in by Dean's relentless Watergate testimony on one hand and on the other by a recalcitrant Congress determined to force him to stop bombing Cambodia...
...Whereas Brezhnev sought barter deals and longterm, low-cost loans, Ceauşescu encouraged West German firms to develop joint ventures with Rumania, in return for 49% of the equity...
with President Nixon, Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev also agreed to another precondition for the convocation in Helsinki: the setting of a firm date...
Rumania's President Nicolae Ceauşescu underlined this rare sense of independence on an official visit last week to West Germany. Like Brezhnev, who preceded him to Bonn by five and a half weeks, Ceauşescu was looking for more West German help to turn his country into a modern, industrialized nation...
...East bloc nations are not the only unknown quantities heading for Helsinki. Among the Western nations, France especially remains somewhat leary of the conference, not to mention the force-reduction talks. On his way home from Washington, Brezhnev called on French President Georges Pompidou to help allay French fears that the Soviet boss's talks with Nixon might have weakened Western European defense strategy. Despite ten hours of togetherness-mostly in what used to be Marie Antoinette's boudoir in the Château de Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris-Brezhnev failed to mention...