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...diplomats at State also have more influence. Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, is with Vance in the Middle East, and will accompany him later to China. George Vest, a 30-year State veteran, is Assistant Secretary for European Affairs and is significantly helping to coordinate Soviet-American relations...
Brzezinski sees the need for the U.S. to pay more attention to nations beyond its traditional allies in Europe and Japan and its traditional adversary, the Soviet Union. If this alarms the Kremlin, he remains unruffled. He predicts that elements of U.S.-Soviet "cooperation and competition will be mixed for a long time to come," and he argues that Soviet-American relations must be "assimilated into a new approach toward the world as a whole." Brzezinski sees the Kremlin leaders as aging in both years and ideas, and feels that the U.S. is much more in step with the currents...
...somehow seemed an unlikely time and place for Jimmy Carter's first full-length speech on Soviet-American relations. Here was the President on what looked for all the world like an old-fashioned barnstorming tour through his native South last week, and here were 500 Southern state legislators in the gardenia-adorned Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, S.C., all ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next...
...TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "Part of the problem with detente is that there have been too many atmospherics, too many ups and downs. We've got to stop going on this roller coaster and develop a mature, continuing relationship. Also, there is a lot going on in Soviet-American relations, and a lot is going well, so it is a mistake to judge it just on SALT...
...Games. Brzezinski bases his carefully qualified optimism on agreements for technical and scientific cooperation in space projects, environmental problems and other areas. It is, in fact, precisely because there are so many Government agencies involved in Soviet-American relations that a special interagency committee was formed last week in order to coordinate their diverse activities. The committee will have no policymaking power but will pull together material on the Soviet Union gathered by all Government offices in order to help the White House and State Department develop a coherent policy...