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...response. Said she: "America's successes will be our successes. Your problems will be our problems, and when you look for friends we will be there." Later in the White House, she and Reagan talked for nearly two hours-45 minutes alone, without aides-about everything from East-West relations to, yes, jelly beans. Seemingly impressed to learn that the beans in the two jars that Reagan keeps constantly available come in 35 flavors, the Prime Minister daintily dipped in. "They might not be good for the teeth," she mused, "but they will be good for sugar consumption...
...congressional leaders. The State Department provided embassies of friendly governments in Washington with a lengthy memorandum detailing its evidence. This week the Administration will cap its campaign with the release of a "white paper" summarizing its case that, as one State Department official put it, "El Salvador is an East-West conflict...
...text of a letter from Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Haig, accusing the U.S. of "open interference" in Poland and of making "distorted interpretations" of Soviet propaganda beamed at Iran. America's European al lies are concerned that the Administration's verbal confrontation with Moscow will destabilize East-West relations. The West Germans, for example, fear that the U.S. will pressure them to cancel plans to buy Soviet natural gas in return for high-technology goods. In addition, U.S. allies in Europe would like an early resumption of salt negotiations, which seems unlikely...
...with it an unavoidable inequity. Because of the Soviet Union's interventions in Africa and Afghanistan, its saber rattling in Eastern Europe, its support for Vietnamese aggression in Southeast Asia, and its menacing buildup in nuclear and conventional weaponry, the U.S.S.R. is largely responsible for the crisis in East-West relations. Yet if the U.S. waits for the Kremlin to make the first move in getting the relationship back on track, and especially on the right terms, it may well have to wait much longer than it wants to or should have...
...Soviets were receptive to the Nixon-Kissinger initiatives for détente in 1969; that year the Soviets were fighting on the border with China. Similarly, Brezhnev would like, if possible, to defuse Soviet-American antagonisms now, because a military invasion of Poland, at a time when heightened East-West tensions are still crackling...