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Leonid Ilich Brezhnev came courting the U.S. last week. Money and trade might be in the air more than love, but by East-West standards it promised to be an extraordinarily warm visit. Late Saturday afternoon a sleek blue-and-white Soviet Ilyushin-62 touched down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. Out stepped the Soviet party leader, who was greeted by Secretary of State William Rogers and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Walter Stoessel. There were smiles and handshakes at the airbase, but no bands, no fanfare, no formal speeches...
...considered this view to be overly negative. Moscow and Peking, for example, did not let their controlled press or radio report any of the latest, most sensational developments. Moscow's reasoning undoubtedly was that it had too heavy an investment in friendly relations with Nixon, in view of upcoming East-West state visits, to risk smirching his image...
Grechko, 69, is the first soldier to serve on the Politburo since 1957. A Brezhnev ally, he has supported the easing of East-West tensions even though it involves an inevitable reduction in the importance of the military. Inside the Politburo, his expertise will be invaluable to Brezhnev on such complex issues as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions conference...
...surge in East-West trade could markedly improve the Soviet economy by bringing in foreign technology-notably computers-and consumer goods. But the Soviet Union will not make the final leap to true consumer affluence until its top political leaders find some way of reconciling central planning, to which they obdurately cling as the distinguishing feature of a socialist economy, with the decentralized industrial decision making that they admire in the capitalist West...
...FOOT Trail, the only paved east-west road on the Pine Ridge reservation, stretches across the southern portion of the reservation and leads directly into Wounded Knee. Back in 1890, Big Foot and his Oglala followers marched along this gently rolling road toward their death at Wounded Knee...