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Isolated Incident. The Soviet action was a serious, though probably not fatal blow to detente. Both Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have long stressed that the normalization of trade relations was a prerequisite for Soviet-American cooperation on such contentious issues as nuclear arms control and peace in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Last week, however, Kissinger presented the Soviet cancellation as an isolated incident in the general course of detente. He characterized Moscow's move as merely an "interruption"-not "a final break." Shortly thereafter, the official Soviet news agency...
...Soviet-American trade agreement, the outlines of which were agreed on at the Moscow summit, is signed in Washington...
...Kissinger-Brezhnev talks about Soviet-American trade relations were less productive. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson's announcement of the compromise linking American trade concessions to an easing of Soviet emigration policy (TIME, Oct. 28) both angered and embarrassed Moscow. Kissinger, who was reportedly infuriated by both Jackson's gloating tone and his premature tuning three weeks ago, is even angrier now that he has borne the brunt of Brezhnev's displeasure for the Senator's grandstanding. Beyond that, Kissinger fears that the Soviets will try to save face by balking on the agreement...
Arriving at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Kissinger announced that he expected the talks, which will also cover the Middle East, European security problems and Soviet-American trade relations, to be "full, friendly and constructive." Privately, however, he was somewhat less optimistic. Although Kissinger, in the post-Nixon era, is freed from the burden of representing a President of precarious tenure, he must now contend with Soviet uncertainty about the continuity of foreign policy between past and present Washington Administrations. Soviet diplomats have been inquiring about the chances of Kissinger's own survival in office-which looks solid...
...clash of historic proportions, and it seemed intractable. In the pursuit of detente, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had long urged enactment of an omnibus trade bill that, among other things, would increase Soviet-American commerce by granting the Soviet Union most-favored-nation status. In the interest of persecuted minorities, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson insisted that Moscow pay a price: it would have to liberalize its emigration policy. Technically the requirement would apply to all Communist countries seeking preferred status as U.S. trade partners; in fact, Soviet Jews who want to leave the U.S.S.R. will be the principal beneficiaries...