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...testing new U.S. Presidents. Washington had anticipated a Kremlin rejection of its proposals, but apparently miscalculated the mood and intention of the Russian leaders. Thus Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev's almost hostile veto of the U.S. proposals came as a shock. His frosty attitude and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's sarcastic comments at a Moscow press conference suggested U.S.-Soviet relations had plunged to the lowest level since the start of detente...
...congressional leaders and told a hastily called press conference he still hopes "that the Soviets will agree to drastic reduction and strict limitations" of nuclear weapons. Vance meanwhile told newsmen as he left Moscow that "relations will continue to be good." He did not sound convinced. Still, Vance and Gromyko will get together in May in Geneva to continue probing for an arms solution. In addition, Vance and the Russians agreed to set up study groups to deal with pressing global issues...
...Soviets' minds between the human rights effort and SALT. We have no evidence that this was the case." Nonetheless, Soviet officials and journalists had been telling Americans in Moscow that the Kremlin bitterly resented what it considered Washington's interference in Russia's domestic affairs. As Gromyko put it at his press conference, the rights campaign "hurts the political atmosphere for discussion of other issues, including arms limitation." The Russians had basic quarrels with the bold new U.S. proposals. But SALT may continue to face rough going if Carter presses the human rights issue too hard...
...Vance's visit, in Brezhnev's Kremlin conference room, which once had been Lenin's study. As Vance and the Soviet leader faced each other across a 50-ft.-long table, the mood in the room was so strained that even normally dour Andrei Gromyko tried to lighten the atmosphere with a few lame attempts at humor. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who had previously reported from Moscow and was back last week covering the Vance trip, was struck by the Soviet leader's physical appearance: "Brezhnev's health had failed terribly since I last...
Vance's visit ended a long hiatus in top-level contacts between Moscow and Washington since the détente era began five years ago. Apart from an inconclusive meeting between former President Gerald Ford and Gromyko, the two sides had not sat down at a negotiating table since January 1976. U.S.Soviet relations, which progressively soured last year after pro-Moscow forces won the Angolan civil war, have not been helped by Carter's championship of human rights in general and Soviet dissidents in particular...