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...establishment of Europe into a fertile whole, instead of being paralyzed by a sterile division, remains France's primary aim. Thus, the understanding between hitherto antagonistic states is above all, according to the French, a European problem." Next morning, in political talks with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, De Gaulle learned that French "understanding" is not the same as Russian...
Ensconced among the green malachite columns and crystal chandeliers of Catherine the Great's throne room, Brezhnev launched into a lengthy, violent diatribe against West Germany-a "revanchist" state, which 25 years ago last week had invaded Russia, that has not yet accepted the postwar Oder-Neisse frontier and, moreover, now demands nuclear weapons. French aides noted signs of Gaullist irritation: the general's nods came with such regularity that he resembled a ticking time bomb and his hands clenched tight on the carved Romanov griffins of his chair. De Gaulle's response would have pleased...
...Moscow meeting. The Gaullists of the Communist alliance are the Rumanians, who argue that the pact should be loosened and some Russian troops be sent home from the satellites (TIME, May 20). Private arm twisting having failed to move Bucharest, twice last week Russian First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev publicly appealed for the "unity of the Communist movement...
...Soviet admission of its economic woes comes at a time when Party Boss Leonid I. Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin are launching a major attempt to correct the Soviet Union's underlying economic ill: its troubled agricultural system. Though a grain exporter under the Czars, Russia under the commissars is unable even to feed itself; it imported almost as much grain (25 million tons) during the past three years as India and China combined...
...Brezhnev explained to a party meeting in Moscow last week, the Soviet Union will spend roughly $45 billion during the next five years to 1) mechanize the farms, 2) increase chemical-fertilizer output, 3) irrigate 6,500,000 acres of arid soil, and 4) rehabilitate and drain an estimated 11 million acres of potentially tillable land. Unlike Khrushchev, who concentrated on opening up Asian virgin lands, Brezhnev and Kosygin plan to put the main emphasis on improving already cultivated areas west of the Urals. Brezhnev also put his prestige behind the most unusual departure in Soviet agriculture since the 1930s...