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Recently he re-established diplomatic bonds with Peking and extended an invitation to Premier Chou En-lai to visit Belgrade. Then he turned around and played host to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, with whom he joined in a declaration of friendship and cooperation. Now, closing the triangle, Tito is moving to enhance Yugoslav-American relations, which have been better than ever since President Nixon's 1970 state visit to Belgrade...
...Irish Republic's Lynch has said only that he hopes unification can be achieved in his lifetime. In the London Times, Louis Heren said that "[Kennedy's] assertion that the U.S. was entitled to intervene because of the Irish contributions to American culture" amounts to "an ethnic Brezhnev doctrine...
...certainly seemed that way when the two sides met in the Kremlin. Sadat and his entourage were greeted with Soviet-style bear hugs and busses from Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny. And, while the Russians stressed their interest in a peaceful settlement in the Middle East, the communiqué that followed ten hours of talks mentioned "measures aimed at further strengthening the military might of Egypt." That announcement triggered the possibility of additional U.S. arms shipments to Israel...
...scene," says a top official of the U.S. State Department. The job is to lay the groundwork for a proposed conference between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact nations to bring about the reduction of armed forces in Europe. Earlier this year, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev surprised the West by suddenly endorsing its longstanding proposal for such troop cutbacks. NATO, suggested Brezhnev, should try tasting "the wine" of Moscow's intentions. Last week, at a Deputy Foreign Ministers' meeting in Brussels, NATO chose a man to do just that: Manlio Brosio, 74, the meticulous...
...country's six republicans and two provinces. It remains to be seen, however, whether the reforms will keep Yugoslavia together once the unifying presence of Tito, 79, is gone-and lately the Soviets have seemed to be looking for an excuse to intervene. Consequently, though Tito and Leonid Brezhnev exchanged conciliatory pledges in Belgrade last month, the Yugoslavs went right ahead with their maneuvers less than two weeks after the Soviet party leader's departure...