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What do Soviet leaders really think about world affairs these days? In recent months, the Kremlin has provided few clues to its attitudes. Last week, though, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev used the occasion of a speech to Russia's Trade Unions Congress to spell out the Moscow position on a number of major foreign policy issues. The Brezhnev speech, which ran for 90 minutes, was generally moderate and confident in tone. Major points...
...SOVIET RELATIONS. Brezhnev expects some results from President Nixon's visit to Russia, which is scheduled to begin on May 22. "We approach the coming Soviet-American talks from a businesslike and realistic position," he said. Brezhnev expressed his desire for an agreement in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. His statement lent support to speculation that a partial agreement, perhaps banning the installation of ABMs, will be ready for signing by the time of Nixon's visit...
...SOVIET UNION: Yes he would like to visit Moscow, said Sato, "if I am still fit in body and mind, and if I am still in office." But he expressed doubts about the prospects for the Asian collective-security system that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has proposed: "I am afraid it would not be very effective as long as there is such a state of enmity and tension between the U.S.S.R. and China." He stressed that it would be a "great blunder" for Japan to use Sino-Soviet enmity as a "trick to improve our relations with China...
...Times, a Soviet foreign-language weekly, has recently recounted a number of previously unreported exploits by Brezhnev. During the Kiev campaign in 1943, New Times reported, he took the place of a machine gunner who had been killed and rallied the defenders to beat off a German attack. On another occasion, he led an assault on a German barracks near Berdichev-against the wishes of a superior officer who had ordered him to leave the area. "My place is wherever the situation requires it," Brezhnev is reported to have said...
...sudden publicizing abroad of Brezhnev's military career has puzzled many Western observers in Moscow. One guess is that the party chief's record is being recalled now because of the visit by Richard Nixon, scheduled for May. As a Navy lieutenant in World War II, Nixon helped set up forward landing strips in the Pacific; he was cited for meritorious activities during the 1943-to-1944 battle for the island of Bougainville, where for nearly one month he was subjected to almost daily bombardment...