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Says one U.S. senior foreign policy adviser: "Our relationship with the Soviets has changed dramatically in the past year. Before, we were seeking broad-based accommodations. Now our relations are focused almost entirely on SALT." Brezhnev agrees. He told TIME: "Over the last couple of years, there have been few encouraging moments, to be frank, in Soviet-American relations...
...Soviet-American relationship has developed since then in a procession of crises and events. Among them...
...BERLIN BLOCKADE. The wartime Soviet-American friendship soon hardened into peacetime animosity-the cold war, in the writer Herbert Bayard Swope's coinage-when the Soviet Union organized its postwar system of Eastern European satellite states. The U.S. countered with its Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Finally, in an oblique dig at former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who attached primary importance to Soviet-American detente, Brzezinski adds: "What we are doing in our relations with China should have been done anyway, whether our relations with the Soviet Union were much better or much worse...
...Soviet-American relations over the next few years will probably continue to be characterized by "Cooperation and competition" and will "blow hot and cold," Huntington said. Referring to Western economic strength in relations with Russia, he said Soviet trade with the West which benefits the Soviet economy will most likely continue to increase provided that the Soviets restrain their activities with Cuba in African countries such as Ethiopia and Angola and if they "modify the way in which they treat their own people...