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Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev spoke with a new passion in the past year about substantial cuts in nuclear capacity. But at the negotiating table this summer, their representatives will haggle over the same old minutiae, such as how to classify the plethora of weapons systems. Failure, when combined with the inevitable confrontations over other world issues, will likely lead the two leaders back to the saber-rattling with which they are so much more comfortable...
...right." Indeed, the trip is part of a shrewdly orchestrated campaign to dispel criticism that Reagan has failed to involve himself personally in the development of a coherent foreign policy. It began in earnest with Reagan's proposal last April for a summit meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and his speech at Illinois' Eureka College-his alma mater-outlining proposals for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with the Soviet Union. Reagan's address was partly in response to a growing grass-roots sentiment for a freeze on nuclear weapons. Six days after he returns from Europe...
...What can you tell us about Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's written response to your latest proposals on strategic arms negotiations. Overall, was it encouraging...
...Moscow. Arriving in small groups, nearly 300 members of the Communist Party's ruling body filed into the auditorium for a closed-door conclave. Ostensibly, the main object of the special meeting was to discuss a plan to increase agricultural production. But shortly after the start, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, 75, in his role as General Secretary of the Communist Party, made an announcement that added a new element to the most popular pastime in Moscow: speculating about who will eventually succeed the ailing leader...
With golden medals glimmering on the breast of his dark suit, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev slowly made his way though the lilacs and carnations to the podium. "Glory! Glory!" chanted 6,000 exultant members of the Young Communist League as their ailing leader, in his deep and slurred growl, began to speak. But a dramatic hush descended over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan...