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...vacation in Europe with his wife, Shadrin had a prearranged meeting with two KGB officers on the steps of a church in Vienna, then vanished. At Ewa's insistence, the U.S. repeatedly asked the Soviets for information about Shadrin's fate. Gerald Ford sent an inquiry to Leonid Brezhnev, who replied vaguely that the KGB had not kidnaped Shadrin. U.S. officials told reporters that Shadrin was probably dead or in a Soviet prison. In response to suggestions of U.S. bungling, some officials even suggested that Shadrin had been a Soviet plant, a triple agent, and his disappearance...
...said a diplomat in Bonn, where Leonid Brezhnev arrived last week on his first trip to the West in nearly a year. It is no secret that the Soviet boss, now 71, has a long history of medical problems, which Western intelligence agencies believe may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition that requires him to have a pacemaker. Still, the health precautions that were taken for his four-day stay were startling...
...light in their eyes.) For one thing, Gromyko brought along Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, the Soviets' First Deputy Minister of Defense and chief of the Soviet general staff. His uniformed appearance was the first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought a thick folder marked Pervaya Beseda (First Session). Noticing that Chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, on Vance's right, had only a blank legal pad, Gromyko asked jokingly whether that meant the Americans had neglected to bring any new proposals...
...Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's principal assistant in the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, he was familiar with Soviet positions on strategic arms. For example, Shevchenko had been instrumental in organizing next month's special U.N. session on disarmament, which, it was reported, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev planned to attend...
...danger of a conventional conflict escalating into a nuclear holocaust. But, as supporters note, NATO is a defensive alliance and the neutron bombs would only be used on allied territory to beat back a Soviet attack. Soviet propagandists have played artfully on the debate. In Pravda, for instance, President Leonid Brezhnev called the bomb "an inhuman weapon." But in the same article he warned that the Soviets might proceed with their own neutron bomb if the U.S. goes ahead with production. In fact, the Soviets are indeed working on their own version of the weapon...