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Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is a past master of give and take, Russian style. At one point during the most recent Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Moscow, Brezhnev took a fancy to the expensive gold Omega wristwatch worn by State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Brezhnev asked for it, offering in exchange a cheap Russian pocket watch...
...Angola would also be discussed, Brezhnev replied with a shrug: "For me there is nothing to talk about on Angola. Angola isn't my country, after all." Kissinger interjected: "It will certainly be discussed." Said Brezhnev with a grin: "You discuss it with [State Department Counsellor Helmut] Sonnenfeldt...
...when Napolitano tried to get an entry visa, he was told to wait, and wait he did. As the date the trip was supposed to start rolled around, Hoffmann and Lange tried to find out from the State Department what the problem was. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, counsellor to the State Department, finally let Hoffmann know...
...Sonnenfeldt explained that a law, passed during the height of the McCarthy period, forbids members of Communist Parties anywhere from entering the United States, unless the State Department recommends a waiver of ineligibility to the Justice Department. The law is apparently never applied to representatives of Communist Parties in power...
...week before the President was to leave, the U.S. Government had no unified negotiating stance on the myriad of details involved in SALT II. "If Henry is working on something," says one high-ranking American arms control expert, "only he, Nixon, Helmut Sonnenfeldt (State Department Counselor) and Alexander Haig know about it. It's on the back, back burner. Nobody here is working on it." Adds a State Department official tartly: "It is not possible to negotiate a comprehensive agreement within the U.S. Government, let alone with the Soviet Union...