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...American Government, ruling circles and big business have been bitterly opposed to Richard Nixon's policy of rapprochement with the Soviet Union. They were galled by his trip to Moscow, infuriated by his policy of increased trade-but the final straw is the planned visit by Leonid Brezhnev to the U.S. next month. So they have got together and cooked up the Watergate scandal in order to discredit Nixon and sabotage his policy toward the Soviet Union...
Grechko, 69, is the first soldier to serve on the Politburo since 1957. A Brezhnev ally, he has supported the easing of East-West tensions even though it involves an inevitable reduction in the importance of the military. Inside the Politburo, his expertise will be invaluable to Brezhnev on such complex issues as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions conference...
...Brezhnev's promotion of Andropov, 59, some Western diplomats saw it as a signal to political ideologues that detente will not be permitted to weaken party strength or orthodoxy. Then again, Brezhnev may simply have felt that it was better, in a major shakeup, to have the top cop inside the tent instead of outside it. The elevation of Romanov, 50, was interpreted as a reward for a dutiful party boss, who becomes a "candidate" member of the Politburo with no voting rights...
Shelest and Voronov were the first Politburo members to be fired for political reasons since Brezhnev took over. Their fall was not unexpected. Last May, Shelest, 65, was removed from the leadership of the Ukrainian Party after he was believed to have opposed President Nixon's visit to Moscow. Since then he has also been accused of promoting Ukrainian nationalism. Voronov was ousted as Premier of the Russian Republic in 1971. Besides lacking enthusiasm for détente, he had disagreed with Brezhnev on agricultural policies. At 62, he may also have been regarded by Brezhnev as a future...
...Prime Minister Edward Heath in Washington last February, and with Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti two weeks ago. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is due in the U.S. this week; France's President Georges Pompidou is also scheduled to meet Nixon before Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev arrives for his long-awaited U.S. tour in June...