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...SOVIET UNION. For all the ritual pledges of allegiance to détente in both Moscow and Washington, the Nixon Administration's dealings with Russia face tests in several tricky areas. In Europe there are the plodding negotiations on East-West political relations in Geneva and the talks on NATO-Warsaw Pact force reductions in Vienna. The promised expansion of U.S.-Soviet trade is hung up principally on Senator Henry M. Jackson's opposition to a bill granting the Soviets most-favored-nation trading status. Jackson demands a Kremlin commitment to further increases in emigration of Soviet Jews...
...closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent of American spies is spilling into the U.S.S.R., in the guise of businessmen, scholars, students, tourists and diplomats. Underscoring the supposed menace, Soviet Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov addressed the nation on television in a rare public appearance last month...
...years, certainly, have there been so many wobbly governments, imperiled leaders and shattered traditions in Western Europe and North America. Last week alone, a series of coincidental developments posed the astonishing prospect of almost overnight change in the mind and manners of several key governments, with deep implications for East-West detente and other matters of high policy...
...editorials issued calls to arms, tanks moved into position, and ships at sea began "strategic maneuvers." Berlin? Czechoslovakia? In fact, the moves and countermoves involved the area around Trieste, on the Yugoslav-Italian border, which until now has been one of the most successfully accommodated (though never finally resolved) East-West disputes...
...Kissinger, 50, arrived on his sixth and potentially most important visit to the Soviet Union since he became the foreign-policy plenipotentiary of Richard Nixon's Administration. In the Russian capital, the policymakers of the two ranking superpowers were to review a number of issues that affected not only East-West detente but the entire world...