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News of the Brezhnev-Giscard parley, to be held in Poland with Polish Communist Leader Edward Gierek as host, surprised and confounded many Western diplomats. West German officials, perhaps piqued because Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had been upstaged by Giscard, regarded the summit as another Soviet at tempt to shatter Western solidarity. On the other hand, French officials maintained that Giscard was only following Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to mediate between East and West. The focus of the summit was not disclosed in advance, but probable topics included NATO'S plans to deploy medium-range nuclear...
...whirlwind tour had become urgently necessary in the wake of the French refusal to take part in a five-nation parley with the U.S., originally scheduled for last week in Bonn. Deeply concerned about French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's coolness to U.S. diplomatic initiatives, Washington decided that even a series of bilateral talks would do more to restore a sense of cohesion within the Western alliance than no consultations at all. "There is no substitute for face to face," said one senior U.S. official on the trip. "It's a hell of a lot easier...
...surprise, the March 29 date proposed by Viet Nam for peace talks with China came and went last week without any parley taking place. Hanoi claimed that as many as 10,000 Chinese troops still occupied parts of its border area, and thus refused to discuss peace terms. Peking insisted that it had withdrawn completely from Viet Nam; U.S. analysts accept that statement, but they also believe that the Chinese have slightly altered the old border for tactical military purposes-"a matter of a hundred yards here and a hundred yards there," as one official...
...fact that he has never been in Moscow to parley in the Kremlin with Leonid Brezhnev and the Politburo will be even more of a handicap to Carter when the Soviet chief makes what is almost sure to be a SALT-signing visit in Washington this spring. The Soviet summit is "big casino," in the words of one American. Carter will be dealing with a superpower, not a nation of poverty that happens to reek with potential...
Clearly the time has come to forget the Alamo, to struggle down memories of the glorious oil nationalization and to try some creative horse trading. President Carter will journey to Mexico in mid-February to trade abrazos and to parley in his struggling Spanish with President Lopez Portillo. Now that Congress has passed the energy bill and U.S. natural gas prices will rise in January, Carter can comfortably sweeten the price for Pemex gas. In order to encourage Mexico's struggling agriculture and industry, and to relieve its population pressures, he would do well to promise higher economic aid, lower...