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Barring some unpredictable and unlikely disaster, the Washington summit will almost certainly enhance Brezhnev's prestige and position in the Soviet Union. Until recently the Moscow hierarchy was a determinedly collective leadership. Brezhnev's dealings are still sharply defined within the perimeters set by the Politburo. But since the last summit, when he shared the spotlight with President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Kosygin, he has handled the show alone. In a major Politburo shake-up in April, he dispatched two of the strongest opponents of his policies. His official job - General Secretary of the Communist Party - does...
...European security late this month and hold a summit finale in September. They see a full-scale conference as an opportunity to make permanent all of those borders that were redrawn to the Soviets' advantage at the end of World War II. As Willy Brandt did when Brezhnev visited Bonn, President Nixon will insist that the success of the conference must hinge upon a free flow of ideas and people throughout Europe...
INDOCHINA. As he has in the past, Nixon will suggest to Brezhnev that Soviet cooperation-meaning putting pressure on Hanoi to observe the cease-fire-will determine the extent of U.S. help in trade and technology. Although Brezhnev may be willing, the President's bargaining position has been weakened by the threat of a congressional cutoff of funds for bombing in Cambodia...
There is no likelihood that the two leaders will agree to a moratorium on arms shipment. The best that can be expected is Brezhnev's affirmation that the Soviet Union will not actually seek to block any negotiations...
...questions that the Nixon-Brezhnev meeting is a necessary move in the strategy of détente. But there has long been an endemic suspicion that the superpowers might make a bilateral deal that would be to the detriment of Europeans-a suspicion that has been enhanced by Watergate and the danger that a seriously weakened President might try to recoup by concluding something spectacular. Last week Secretary of State Rogers departed from the text of his speech at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Copenhagen to reassure the Atlantic allies that Nixon would make no agreements with Brezhnev...