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...longer-range consequences are equally serious. Demonstrating Soviet concern, Izvestia warned last week that rejection of the treaties would lead "to a slippery and disastrous road." Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who has staked his prestige on detente in Europe, might have to yield ground to Moscow's hardliners. Defeat of the treaties could also create diplomatic trouble for West Germany's allies. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers last week termed the Berlin agreement a major achievement of the Nixon Administration. In fact, the successful outcome of those talks last fall was one reason Nixon agreed to visit...
Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev spent World War II as a political commissar with the 18th army, rising in rank from colonel to major general. His primary task was to ensure the political probity of his fellow officers, but, the Soviet press now reports, he also had a harrowing and even heroic combat career...
Expectably, there was some gleefully negative reaction in both parties. Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson asked: "If he's like that with Loeb, what would he do with Brezhnev?" Added Republican National Chairman Robert Dole: "I don't blame Muskie for crying. If I had to run against Richard Nixon, I'd do a lot of crying...
...controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...
Many Yugoslavs believe that Brezhnev, with an eye toward his pet project, a European Security Conference, may have prevailed upon the Bulgarians to make a few concessions in the interests of Balkan amity. What worries the Yugoslavs is that once the conference is held the Soviets will return to their old game of permitting the Bulgarians to harass Yugoslavia over the Macedonian question...