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...singled out for the initial meeting because of the role it had played in arranging the China trip; Paris had served as an intermediary between Washington and Peking, smoothing out many details. Beyond that, President Pompidou has been the latest Western leader to talk to Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev, and Nixon is anxious to know what is on the Russian's mind before he goes to China. Nixon feels he enjoys a special relationship with Pompidou. "I find the French President a man very much like myself," he once remarked. The French President reciprocates the feeling. On leaving...
...Brezhnev's backers were expected to make their move at last week's plenum of the 240-member Central Committee...
Since last spring, Leonid Brezhnev has unofficially ranked as the primus inter pares in Russia's collective leadership. But Brezhnev is handicapped by a bothersome pecking-order peculiarity of the Soviet system. As General Secretary of the Communist Party, he is the Soviet Union's most powerful official. On diplomatic protocol lists, however, he stands only No. 3. First is Nikolai Podgorny, who as chairman of the Presidium holds the position of head of state. Second is Aleksei Kosygin, who as Premier ranks as chief of government...
According to diplomatic custom, Brezhnev is not entitled to the top red-carpet treatment accorded to foreign dignitaries of higher official standing-elaborate airport ceremonies, big honor guards and 21-gun salutes. On his recent visit to Paris, the French did not decide to accord Brezhnev full head-of-state honors until the Russians dropped some very strong hints that he wanted it that way. When Brezhnev meets with President Nixon in the spring, he is certain to be painfully aware that he is receiving a man who holds the overwhelming protocol advantages of being at once a) party leader...
Politburo Opposition. Since last September, a campaign has been under way to elevate Brezhnev to the No. 1 spot in name as well as fact. There was some speculation in Moscow that Brezhnev's backers would seek to create for him a new all-powerful Council of State, along the lines of similar bodies in Bulgaria, East Germany and Rumania, that would give him the top state job as well as the ranking party post. Other speculations held that Brezhnev would shove Kosygin aside and take over both government and party leadership just as Nikita Khrushchev...