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...Arab capitals, including the first visit ever by an Egyptian President to Baghdad (see story page 32). In Moscow, meanwhile, the Soviets completed a series of strategy conferences with Arab diplomats from Egypt, Iraq and Syria and with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. This week Premier Aleksei Kosygin will pay official visits to Tunisia and Libya...
...support of Israel's right to exist and its ability to defend itself against the hostile Arab countries that surround it. It has been one of the few uncritically accepted constants of U.S. foreign policy in the postwar era?and it has sometimes puzzled foreign leaders. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin put it directly to Lyndon Johnson when he met the President at Glassboro, N.J., in 1967. Asked Kosygin: "I don't understand you Americans backing Israel. There are 80 million Arabs* and only 3 million Israelis. It does not make sense. Why do it?" Replied Johnson: "Because it is right...
Whitlam, the first Australian Premier ever to visit Moscow. Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin did the honors. Whitlam was told that Brezhnev had a "heavy cold" and was "resting outside Moscow." This suggested that Brezhnev is actually incapacitated or that his Politburo colleagues mean him to appear so. "Reasons of health," was the official rationale for Nikita Khrushchev's forced resignation...
...Japan's Komeito (Clean Government) party, which emerged second only to the combined forces of the Socialists and Communists as an opposition party in the last election. Moreover, on his global mission for what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address his organization's 200,000 converts in the country, Ikeda will meet U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to inform him that Soka Gakkai has collected 10 million signatures against nuclear armament...
...famous Moscow Circus School, the two leaders went to the Bolshoi Theater Friday night for a superb collage of Soviet culture, bits of ballet, opera, folk singing, Cossack dancing and even a chorus of Swanee River, in both English and Russian. The couples, together with Kissinger, Kosygin and Podgorny, watched the performance from a flag-draped box at the rear of the theater, and during the intermission gathered for a light buffet. Toasting the women at the table, Brezhnev gallantly reached into a bouquet of roses and handed one to Pat Nixon. Talking to the performers backstage after the curtain...