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Shaw's view of Moscow includes a watch on his neighbor Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, who has an apartment a block away in the Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Almost every day for the past 1 8 months, Shaw and Brezhnev have passed briefly on their block - Shaw walking to the TIME bureau, Brezhnev speeding to work in his black limousine...
...decided by Saigon's present government and the P.R.G. Thieu's objections, together with problems brought up by the North Vietnamese, were enough, in any event, to stymie the expected agreement. Kissinger flew back to Washington over the weekend to finish preparations for the Nixon-Brezhnev summit, but planned to return to Paris early this week to try, once again, to stop the fighting...
...most ebullient display of pressing the flesh since the days of Lyndon Johnson's breathless world tours At various times on Leonid Brezhnev's historic four-day visit to Bonn, television cameras caught the Soviet party chief kissing the hand of Chancellor Willy Brandt's wife Rut, bear-hugging the minister-president of North Rhine Westphalia, Heinz Kiihn, and talking to Brandt's diminutive foreign policy adviser Egon Bahr with both hands on his shoulders. Brezhnev grinned and waved at crowds so relentlessly, in fact, that his grandstanding seemed to nettle Brandt-no mean crowd pleaser...
...Soviet leader matched his display of friendship with conciliatory words. In a remarkably gemütlich television speech the night before he returned home, Brezhnev declared that the Soviet Union's goal was a "decisive turn" toward detente and peace "The Europe that has more than once been the hotbed of aggressive wars that have brought tremendous destruction and the death of millions of people," he said, "must become forever a thing of the past. We want a new Continent in its place-a Continent of peace, mutual trust and reciprocally advantageous cooperation among all countries...
...Trade. Brezhnev's whirl wind courtship of Bonn had a plain purpose. He was after a massive influx of West German capital and technological assistance into the Soviet economy But Bonn was taken aback by the Soviet leader's unrealistic economic expecta tions and his tendency to wave away German political questions in order to dwell on industrial projects. German leaders said Brezhnev seemed to have little awareness of West Germany's role and economic obligations in the EEC. After a long session with West German businessmen, in which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge...