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When Russia called the nations of the Warsaw Pact together for their first full-dress ministerial meeting in 18 months, the avowed intention of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was to strengthen the military command structure of the Red alliance. Brezhnev insisted that the conference be held in Bucharest in order to demonstrate that even the recalcitrant Rumanians could be pressed into a show of Communist unity. Yet when the four-day conference ended last week, the best Brezhnev had achieved was a standoff...
...husband and cracked to De Gaulle: 'This one must have given you plenty of headaches these past few days." "Not at all," responded le grand Charles gallantly. "It went well, very well." Then, while Mme. de Gaulle entertained the ladies, De Gaulle took Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev aside for an intimate chat. Western newsmen goggled at the sight of the burly Brezhnev locking De Gaulle in a bear hug while stressing an important point. "Eisenhower could have had this kind of reception," groused one American. "De Gaulle is just stealing Ike's show...
Climate of Détente. Yet the climax of De Gaulle's grand tour proved an anticlimax for those who had anticipated-or feared-immediate and concrete results in the realm of East-West relations. Back in Moscow, De Gaulle met again with Brezhnev and Kosygin to prepare a 2,000-word "declaration of intent." Both sides held firm to their positions on German reunification, De Gaulle refusing to agree to East German recognition and the Russians remaining rigid in their support of the European status quo. Both sides concurred in their earlier demands...
...went so smoothly on the economic and scientific front that there was time in that session to return to world-scale questions. On Viet Nam, De Gaulle and Brezhnev found it enough to agree that neither Red China nor the U.S. should ultimately win the war and occupy the country. Both concurred in their oft-stated demands for "respect for the 1954 Geneva Accords" and establishment of an independent Viet Nam, "sovereign and free of all foreign intervention." Brezhnev, softening from his rigid position of the previous day, proposed another session on politics at the end of De Gaulle...
...both sides of the Iron Curtain other men in other places were pursuing the same vocation, confirming the fact that Europe was indeed in motion. Last month Rumanian Minister of Metallurgy Ion Marinescu visited Paris; Russia's Leonid Brezhnev showed briefly in Bratislava; Czech Foreign Trade Minister Frantiśek Hamouz skipped frantically from Oslo to Budapest to Copenhagen, signing trade agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland...