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...only four days after H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman resigned as part of President Nixon's effort to put Watergate behind him, I was airborne for Moscow. At that time, Soviet-American relations were unusually free of tension. A summit between Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon was to take place in June on American soil; my few days in the Soviet Union in May were to prepare for it. On this trip I had a glimpse of Brezhnev that intrigues me to this day when I reflect on whether there can ever be a stable coexistence between...
Thus arms control has been linked to the overall Soviet-American relationship for at least 13 years. Initially, however, linkage was based more on inducements than sanctions, and it was part of an overarching, and for a while quite promising, grand design for dealing with the Soviet Union...
This is a reversion to the concept of linkage, the idea that all the major problems in Soviet-American relations are connected. Intolerable Soviet behavior in one area, by this reckoning, must affect U.S. cooperation elsewhere. The Reagan Administration adopted this policy a year ago, but seemed to be edging away from it. Haig now plans to bring up items like the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and warn that the course of events in Poland will affect START negotiations. Said a State Department spokesman: "The Secretary has emphasized that the continuing repression of the Polish people, in which Soviet responsibility...
Stanley H. Hoffman, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, said that the administration had exercised moderation in the nuclear talks in Europe. But the attitude is not significant enough to affect the administration's overall global strategy of defining policy "simply as a Soviet-American conflict," he added...
...Reagan Administration to date. TASS accused the President of "new acts of blackmail" and of "a deliberate striving to hurl the world back to the dark times of the cold war." Said the official Soviet news agency: "Washington's rulers are in a hurry to whip up a campaign of hatred against socialist countries, to undermine the foundations of Soviet-American relations, and to curtail them to a minimum...