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...principal authors of the plan were Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, who personally signed the report in a departure from tradition as one more demonstration of his paramountcy within the Politburo, and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Among the goals...
Abroad, particularly in Communist capitals, speculation was presented as fact. In Moscow, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin charged flatly that American and South Vietnamese troops were involved in "an outrageous invasion" of Laos. In the U.S., the response was remarkably temperate. About the angriest reaction came from Democratic Presidential Hopeful George McGovern, who blasted the Administration for imposing "the longest news blackout of the war."* Added he: "What a way to run a war! What a way to manage a free society!" The U.S. command in Saigon defended the embargo as essential to keeping the enemy guessing about allied intentions...
...While the U.S.-imposed news embargo continued yesterday, Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin charged that American and South Vietnamese forces had launched "an outrageous invasion" of southern Laos. The North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry issued a statement over Radio Hanoi accusing Washington of "intensifying and expanding its war in Indochina...
...Gromyko would receive him. Muskie and Gromyko talked for nearly three hours over a "wide range" of subjects. The next day came the coup of the trip for a presidential candidate seeking to strengthen his foreign policy credentials: a 3-hr. 45-min. interview on "bilateral interests" with Aleksei Kosygin. It was the longest discussion that the Soviet Premier has held with an American visitor since coming to power. Once again came word that the talks had been "cordial." Muskie would not elaborate beyond that stock description, insisting that he needed "time to digest." After all, he said...
This week Muskie was scheduled to fly to Cairo and hear the other side of the Middle East controversy from top Egyptian officials. He then will go to Moscow, where he hopes to see Premier Aleksei Kosygin, and to West Germany for a visit with Willy Brandt...