Word: leonid
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Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...
...Diplomacy. Moreover, TIME learned last week from a ranking Soviet diplomat in Damascus that a letter had recently been sent by Leonid Brezhnev to Assad asking the Syrian leader to remain calm. Brezhnev wrote that the Soviets would "make every possible effort" to have the Geneva Conference reconvene as soon as possible but probably not before the Soviet leader's visit to Syria in January. In exchange for such an assurance, the Soviet diplomat added, the Syrians were "very likely" to renew the U.N. mandate before it expires Nov. 30. To do otherwise, as the Syrians must know, would...
...restore momentum to Middle East negotiations, he had talked about oil prices with the Shah of Iran and King Faisal (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) and had discussed East-West relations with Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest and aging Josip Broz Tito, now 82, in Belgrade, as well as with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. As a small token of the Soviet party chiefs hopes for a happy Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka, 44, and his family to fly to the U.S. Kudirka attracted world attention four years...
Kissinger had discussed his program with various heads of state on his latest country-spanning diplomatic mission. All had responded favorably, except for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. A reserve system would preclude the kind of secrecy-shrouded, bargain-hunting raids on the Western wheat market that have become a hallmark of Soviet trade. The Russians, who guard agricultural intelligence as a state secret, are also hesitant to begin sharing crop information. A high State Department official noted the irony of this ideological role reversal: "We are talking about planning while the Communists are using our old market methods to meet...
Neither Kissinger nor the familiar "high State Department official" had much to tell newsmen about the hours of talk that the Secretary had with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. Kissinger did indicate, however, that progress had been made in setting up guidelines for further limitation of strategic arms. These tentative agreements will be pursued at a Brezhnev-Ford "working summit" in Vladivostok later this month. The meeting will follow Ford's scheduled state visit to Japan...