Word: brezhnevs
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...walking to a simple table beneath the giant gilt chandelier of the Kremlin's St. Vladimir Hall. Protocol aides laid blue and red leather folders before them. One of the men joked about the number of times he had to sign the documents. Then Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev rose. Handshakes, champagne, toasts. With some variations, the scene had become familiar, even repetitive, by the time the summit ended...
...summit obviously furthers Brezhnev's ambition to draw closer to Europe and to confirm the status quo at a European Security Conference. It caps Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, designed to improve West Germany's relations with its Communist neighbors. That may bring relaxation in Europe, but it may also bring new tensions and rival ries between the U.S. and Russia there...
...present, Nixon and Brezhnev seemed agreed only to continue disagreeing on the Middle East. On Viet Nam, by do ing nothing to respond to the Ameri can mining of Haiphong and other ports, Moscow had indeed done some thing of major proportions...
...note of restrained cordiality was struck from the moment Nixon landed Monday at the Moscow airport. On hand to greet him were President Nikolai Podgorny, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Brezhnev was absent, but that was not unusual or slighting. The route to Moscow had been cleaned up for the President's visit. U.S. flags waved alongside Soviet banners on lampposts. In the soft glow of twilight, the glittering domes of the Kremlin churches seemed cheerful and inviting as the limousines crossed the Moscow River and swept into the fastness of the Kremlin...
...Nixons were put up in an elegantly furnished seven-room suite that had been searched for electronic bugs by U.S. security agents before their arrival. But the President had barely settled in when he got an invitation to chat with Brezhnev-a parallel to the Peking journey, when Mao Tse-tung also invited him to an early, unscheduled interview. Facing each other across a long green felt-covered table, the two leaders conducted what were described by the White House as "frank and businesslike" talks. Those words were regularly, almost ritually used to describe the meetings for the rest...