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...past three years, Brezhnev has had five successful meetings with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, French President Georges Pompidou and President Nixon. He has been the crucial partner in Brandt's policy of Ostpolitik, and has formed a more protective Westpolitik of his own, which seeks to preserve ideological conformity -especially in Eastern Europe-by providing more material benefits. Next month the Helsinki Conference on European Security will take up formal ratification of the post-World War II political status quo of Eastern Europe...
...Under Brezhnev's guidance, the Soviet Union has achieved nuclear parity with the U.S.-and recognition of that status in the first SALT treaty...
...essential ingredient of this policy is the Soviet Union's decision to hinge its economic development on help from the West. Brezhnev is a leading advocate of rapid technological development at home. If his policy misfires, he will have much to answer for. One indication of how many Soviet hopes are pinned to the summit is its treatment in the Soviet press. For weeks, articles have appeared daily applauding Brezhnev's peaceful-coexistence policy and depicting his trip to the U.S. as of historic significance. Americans are described, in a refreshingly unpolemical way, as eager for trade...
From the careful questions raised by Soviet diplomats at receptions, it is clear that the Russians are worried about Watergate. That Brezhnev stuck to the original schedule for the summit, however, suggests that he believes Nixon will somehow ride out his seventh and most serious crisis. Quipped a British Kremlinologist last week: "Brezhnev really has quite an investment in Nixon's survival." The Russians have in fact developed an agreeable working relationship with the President and, of course, Henry Kissinger. It is doubtful if they could envision more complementary partners...
...talks, effectively removing from the negotiations the 40,000 Soviet troops on Hungarian soil, was work on the agenda begun. Nixon needs some kind of reciprocal withdrawal by the Russians to hold off congressional demands for a unilateral cutback of the 300,000 U.S. forces in Europe. Brezhnev is well aware of these pressures, which suggests that he is unlikely to be conciliatory. To even the score...