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...days Dobrynin could sometimes get 24-hour turnaround messages straight from Leonid Brezhnev. He had a private phone line from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a special parking place in the State Department's basement. All that stopped with Reagan's Administration. Dobrynin now goes in the State Department's public entrance. And so cold are U.S.-Soviet relations that it matters less whether Dobrynin has the instant ear of the Politburo...
...there? That is the question that continues to intrigue Presidents. Are these Soviets really heartless or are they so intimidated by the system that they cannot act human? Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believed they had found at least an auricle of Leonid Brezhnev, and detente followed. Jimmy Carter, who hand-penned some notes to Brezhnev, even thought the replies were special-until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
...Soviets to renew the frozen East-West dialogue. The Kremlin used Mitterrand's visit to reject U.S. President Ronald Reagan's offer, made at a press conference one week earlier, to meet with Chernenko. At the end of Mitterrand's first full day, Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin declared that "there has been no change in the American position that would make a summit meeting a real and concrete possibility...
When Western reporters asked him about the explosion, Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin replied evasively, "I have not seen that information, so I cannot tell you whether it is true or not." Western analysts suspect that careless handling might have triggered the blast. Located near a cluster of naval installations on the Kola Peninsula, Severomorsk serves as a major ammunition depot for the 148 surface ships, nearly 200 submarines, 425 warplanes and one aircraft carrier that are attached to the Soviet Union's northern fleet...
...SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, negotiations that began early in the "Nixon Administration, producing the 1972 SALT I treaty limiting ABMs and an interim agreement restricting offensive weapons, and ended with the 1979 SALT II treaty, signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev but never ratified by the U.S. Senate...