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...Soviet leadership threw Carter's "comprehensive" proposal right back in his face; his ill-considered initial approach to the Soviets was one of Carter's major foreign policy mistakes. The SALT II treaty he ended up signing with Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 was based largely on the deal that Ford had struck with Brezhnev three years before, although the final agreement did contain some advantages...
...Kremlin's U.S. specialists favor Carter, chiefly because he supports SALT II, which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev regards as one of his major accomplishments. The Soviets also believe that Carter is more reasonable than Reagan and perhaps more amenable to relaxing East-West tensions. The satellites generally agree. Says an East German diplomat: "Everybody's afraid of Reagan...
What is making this city nervous in these waning days of the campaign is that the "votes" that may tip this election could come from Leonid Brezhnev, the Ayatullah Khomeini, Menachem Begin or assorted other parties far beyond any U.S. precincts...
...stepped off the Aeroflot jetliner onto the tarmac of Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Afghanistan's President Babrak Karmal was given effusive greetings by a phalanx of Soviet officials led by Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The Afghan leader was on his first venture outside the Soviet-occupied country since he was installed as Moscow's puppet last December. The sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused...
...latest evidence of Soviet ambitions comes with the return to earth of Cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin from a record-breaking 185 days aboard the Salyut 6 space station. Their successful mission not only eclipsed the Soviets' earlier endurance mark of 175 days in orbit but was 101 days longer than the stay by U.S. astronauts aboard the Skylab space station in 1974. Says retired U.S. Air Force Lieut. General Thomas Stafford, a former astronaut who commanded the orbital linkup with the Soviets in 1975, the last manned American mission: "The Soviets are challenging the U.S. in space...