Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FOREIGN POLICY. He gives unswerving support to Israel, not only on principle but to preserve the U.S. position in the Middle East, and implacably mistrusts Russia. Both came together in his most dubious effort: his insistence on amending the U.S.-Soviet trade agreement so that the Russians would have to liberalize their emigration laws -which would chiefly benefit Soviet Jews-in exchange for U.S. trade concessions. The Administration and many others regarded the amendment as a perilous and unwarranted intrusion into Russian internal affairs. But Jackson looked upon it as "one small step along the road to an international community...
...last month the Soviets repudiated the deal. Ford and Kissinger pinned the blame on the Jackson Amendment, arguing that Jewish emigration had in fact been increasing as long as quiet pressure was being applied, but that Russian leaders could not countenance Jackson's advertisement of it as a condition, especially since Congress had failed to make it worthwhile by the piddling credits offered. Many people at first feared that the debate and collapse of the agreement had seriously jeopardized detente. Jackson blamed Moscow for an "egregious breach of good faith" and insisted that the U.S. would be wrong...
...scheduled sixth trip to Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there were worries that this might be the last chance for his step-by-step approach. Foreshadowing Kissinger's visit, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko concluded a Middle East tour of his own to press the Russian preference-a return to Geneva. Syrian President Hafez Assad, the most unbending leader of the Arab confrontation powers, supports that preference. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat still has hopes that Kissinger can achieve further progress; nonetheless, the joint Egyptian-Soviet communiqué issued after Gromyko's visit reflected Sadat...
...Arab capitals that Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev was to visit before he pleaded illness (TIME, Jan. 13). The Soviets are uncomfortably aware that, with French arms and Saudi Arabian subsidies, Sadat is now less dependent on Moscow. As a result, diplomats speculate that Gromyko might ease up on previous Russian demands that talks be shifted to Geneva...
...early 1945 a famous Russian film star and a dashing American naval officer met at a Soviet-American friendship party in Moscow given by then Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov Zoya Fyodorova, 33, was at the peak of her career; she had starred in a dozen roles and had received an offer from MGM. Captain Jackson Tate, 47, had been assigned to Moscow to help the Russians in an abortive plan for the Soviet bombing of Japan. In the brief glow of Allied wartime collaboration, Zoya and Jack fell in love. Their last meeting was on V-E day 1945, when...