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Nonetheless, the Barbados party was about three times the size of the 110-person entourage that the leader of the other superpower, Leonid Brezhnev, took to Bonn last November. Leaders of other important countries make do with even less pomp. The standard for official modesty might belong to President Sandro Pertini of Italy, who, to be sure, fills a largely ceremonial office. When he came to Washington on a state visit last month, he took a chartered Alitalia jet and brought along a retinue of only 15. - By George J. Church...
...week and left his Administration's reply to Haig, who contended in a midweek speech that any such no-first-use pledge would leave Western Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference in New York in June and confer with each other in the process. That is an uncertain prospect in view of Brezhnev's health, and in any case the Administration has made little progress in working out an agreed-upon strategy...
...Ronald Reagan it is one of those times. The unexpected, like Argentina's seizure of the Falkland Islands, piles on the inevitable, like the winding down of Leonid the power in Moscow, which adds to the unfathomable, like the nagging persistence of high interest rates. The rising clamor against nuclear arms, the threat of Israeli action against Lebanon, the stalemate with Congress over the budget are other complications as we rush into a momentous spring...
...speech, Haig attacked the proposed freeze for perpetuating "an unstable and unequal military balance" and removing "all Soviet incentive to engage in meaningful arms control." Reagan announced that he would address the U.N. conference on arms control in New York City this June and pointedly proposed that Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev join him there for a meeting...
...statement from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow was brief and to the point: "Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is currently on his routine winter vacation." Never mind that the cold, crisp days of the Russian winter had passed and that the capricious spring weather and thawing snow hardly made for a pleasant vacation. For Kremlin watchers around the world, the announcement provided the first official acknowledgment that the Soviet leader had indeed dropped out of sight. But if it was intended to allay suspicions about his whereabouts, it only increased the questions concerning Brezhnev's disappearance from public view three weeks...