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...this week's cover story, Shaw once again watched Brezhnev go to work and then followed him, along with ten other newsmen, for a 3-hr. 20-min. interview, the first ever between the 66-year-old Soviet leader and American reporters. Shaw also analyzed the diplomatic, political and economic climate in Moscow on the eve of the second U.S. -Soviet summit in less than 13 months...
Meanwhile, from Washington, Correspondent William Mader described the policies leading to the summit, the details of Brezhnev's itinerary and the likely outcome of the meeting. One surprise for Mader was an invitation to lunch from three Russian diplomats who had once worked in the Soviet embassy in Washington and had returned as part of Brezhnev's advance team. Perhaps inadvertently applying Russia's policy line to the choice of a restaurant, one Russian told Mader: "Let's not go to a French restaurant. Let's leave the French out of this...
Precisely one year after the first Watergate arrests, the most pervasive of all U.S. political scandals reaches a pivotal and perhaps historic point this week. While President Nixon entertains the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev in a visit symbolic of Nixon's loftiest accomplishments in office, most of the nation will be tuned with a mixture of fascination and fear to the televised words of John Wesley Dean III, who observed and participated in the worst of the Administration's illegality and misconduct. The words of Dean, the fired presidential counsel, may well determine whether the President...
Leonid Ilich Brezhnev came courting the U.S. last week. Money and trade might be in the air more than love, but by East-West standards it promised to be an extraordinarily warm visit. Late Saturday afternoon a sleek blue-and-white Soviet Ilyushin-62 touched down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. Out stepped the Soviet party leader, who was greeted by Secretary of State William Rogers and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Walter Stoessel. There were smiles and handshakes at the airbase, but no bands, no fanfare, no formal speeches...
Important guests arriving unofficially at Andrews-even the most powerful Communist chief on earth-always receive a low-key welcome. But the understated formalities belied the potential significance of Brezhnev's visit. This week's Washington summit, regardless of the decisions reached, could not possibly match the drama of Richard Nixon's historic visit to the Middle Kingdom of Chairman Mao. Nor was it likely to repeat the cold-warring tension of John Kennedy's 1961 test of wills with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Nonetheless, this summit had a drama of its own. Here was Leonid...