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...periods of East-West tension, passages from its pages are quoted in the Western press like captured battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...
...Giscard's mission, French spokesmen argued that it had been designed to re-establish a vital line of communications between the West and the U.S.S.R. The five-hour summit in Wilanow Palace-with Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek as host-had produced no perceptible relaxation of East-West tension, much less any Soviet concession on Afghanistan. But the French argued that at least they had set a precedent that might lead to more fruitful talks in the future. French officials said that preparations for the meeting had been kept secret because Brezhnev, whose health is notoriously poor, might...
Concern about East-West ties was also the reason for worldwide interest in the Muskie-Gromyko meeting in Vienna, the first Cabinet-level talks between Washington and Moscow since the Afghanistan invasion last December. Accompanied only by their interpreters, the two ministers talked for three hours-an hour longer than planned-in an elegant marble room inside the former Habsburg imperial palace. After the session Muskie looked distinctly somber as he re-emerged into the klieg lights and said only that "the discussion fully justified my belief that it was necessary." As for the prospects of future talks, Muskie observed...
...Third World is one of several arenas where the action has been in the past few years and much of it disadvantageous to us. It cannot, as Brzezinski sees it, be insulated from East-West relations. It is partly autonomous and partly overlapping. In an Administration that was intending to give top priority to the Third World, we have Iran in anti-American chaos, that whole arc of crisis more and more hostile to the U.S., India and Pakistan both vying for Soviet favor, a Soviet base in South Yemen, the Afghanistan occupation, a Soviet base in Ethiopia, Cubans...
...must, from fervor and ferment to reconstruction and management. The third effort should aim at achieving a détente without illusions. We need a framework for change through competition waged in ways acceptable to both sides. This entails a resumption of arms control negotiations, a coordinated Western policy on East-West trade and far greater communication between Washington and Moscow...