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...daily summary prepared at the direction of the new White House chief of staff General Alexander Haig. Most afternoons and evenings he secluded himself in the Executive Office Building, where he was said to be preparing for next month's meeting with Soviet Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...band of West German officials led by Chancellor Willy Brandt. Black, gold and red West German flags and red and gold Soviet banners snapped in the breeze as the guard of honor clicked to attention, steel-tipped black boots at the prescribed 45-degree angle. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev strode down the steps, shook hands with Brandt and stood at attention as a Bundeswehr band played the two nations' anthems...
Brandt and Brezhnev have met twice before: in Moscow in 1970 and in the Crimea in 1971. Indications are that both men respect each other. "When I first met Brezhnev," Brandt once recalled, "he carried his briefing book in front of him. When we discussed the Middle East, he turned to that section and read a statement. When we discussed Berlin, he did the same. When I went back a few months later, there was no briefing book. Brezhnev knew what he wanted to say on all subjects and said it. He's a fast learner...
...leaders share some traits; both are big-boned, powerfully featured and capable of talking far into the night. "It is easier for Brandt to talk to Brezhnev than to Nixon," says one experienced Western diplomat. "There is a quality of openness in Brezhnev that Brandt enjoys and shares. Nixon is a more difficult, inward person...
...last point, Brezhnev will soon have another chance to judge for himself. Within a few weeks after his visit to Bonn, the Soviet leader is scheduled to make his first journey to Washington. Some diplomats have questioned the certainty of the trip, arguing that it may depend on congressional passage of legislation granting the Soviet Union most-favored-nation trading status with the U.S.. an issue clouded by congressional hostility to Russia's treatment of Soviet Jews. Last week, however, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger returned from a four-day visit to Moscow and reported that more than...