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...that, the Russians and their allies studiously avoided a direct attack on the U.S. Evidently, they were taking no chances of upsetting Nixon's scheduled Moscow summit meeting with Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev in May. In private, the Russians were not so restrained. To a reporter, one Soviet diplomat in Washington complained: "Look how Nixon is trying to exploit our differences with Peking. This is a very dangerous game for you and for everyone...
Recently, while on a four-month reporting tour in Eastern Europe, Tinnin witnessed an incident that underscored the dramatic shift in naval power. He and other newsmen were covering the arrival of Leonid Brezhnev for talks in Belgrade when Soviet warships steamed menacingly into the Adriatic port of Rijeka, where the Russians would like to establish a base. Neither the journalists nor the Tito government could miss the point of the dual visitation...
...Moscow, produced the now-familiar pomp and reassuring communiqués, but were in fact of special significance. In pursuit of his Ostpolitik, Brandt has become the Western leader most familiar with the opportunities and trials of negotiating with the Communist worlds. His insights into Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, although not mentioned publicly, were nonetheless part of Nixon's preparations for the Moscow summit...
...find themselves disagreeing potentially jeopardizes the possibility of their going forward in other areas. Whereas any area where we agree helps. I think what really led both sides to the determination to go forward with the summit was Berlin. Berlin was the critical move. Once Berlin was made, Brezhnev on his side, and I on my side, through an exchange of letters, and also other various conversations, thought this was the time [to set a date for meeting...
...Forget Piotr. Even so, Gierek was anxious to gain the party's mandate for his reformist leadership before the first anniversary of the riots. As Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other East bloc party leaders looked on in the ornate Palace of Culture and Science, whose facade was decorated with a seven-story portrait of Lenin, Gierek made a strong plea to Poles for cooperation. "Our supreme aim," he declared, "is the systematic improvement of living standards"-including at least one free Saturday per month for all vvorkers. He called too for a greater sense of unity...