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There is also concern that Carter's approach may result in the Kremlin's cracking down even harder on protesters. Further, there is real fear at the State Department that Carter's statements might undercut Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who has a deep personal stake in improved U.S.-Soviet relations. Harried by Carter and vulnerable to his own hardliners, Brezhnev could be forced to take an obdurate stand on the SALT talks to show that he is not knuckling under to Washington...
...would be willing to complete a quick SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union, basically confirming the limitation on nuclear weapons agreed upon by President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev in 1974, without resolving the continuing controversy over whether the Soviet Union's Backfire bomber and the U.S. cruise missile should come under the set ceilings. Carter would allow that question to be decided later. This idea had also been proposed by Ford and rejected by the Russians, who, however, may be more receptive...
...opening signals from the Carter Administration on the tone of future U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were contradictory, if not downright confusing. On the one hand, the new Administration, responding to some warm overtures from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, announced plans for quick resumption of the long-stalled talks on U.S.-Soviet arms limitations (see following story). But at the same time, in line with Carter's conviction that U.S. foreign policy ought to show more concern for human rights, Washington seemed willing to strain what might yet be a honeymoon of sorts with Moscow. The Administration...
Even as the Carter Administration was scolding the Kremlin for its mistreatment of Andrei Sakharov, the President and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev moved vigorously to resume the long-interrupted East-West dialogue on arms control. It was almost as if a referee had blown a whistle after a lengthy timeout; the diplomatic ball had suddenly bounced into play...
Even before Carter's Inauguration, Leonid Brezhnev had signaled his readiness to work with the incoming President "to accomplish a major new advance in relations." Speaking at Tula, a three-century-old armaments manufacturing center 100 miles south of Moscow, the Kremlin chief pledged that the U.S.S.R. "will never embark on the road of aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford...