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Brezhnev's thorniest selling problem turned on his desire for most-favored-nation status for Russia. That status was part of the Soviet-American trade treaty signed last October and would mean tariff cuts of 50% or more on Soviet imports into the U.S. But 77 Senators and 284 Representatives have backed legislation to deny M.F.N. to any nation that limits free emigration. Their chief concern is the plight of Soviet Jews who want to leave Russia...
Potentially even more embarrassing for the President is the probability that Congress will not honor his request to grant Moscow most-favored-nation status-a key plank in the Soviet-American trade treaty signed last October...
...side effect of Soviet-American summitry-and this summit in particular-is a certain uneasiness in Europe...
...barred coaches and athletes under its jurisdiction from participating in two A.A.U.-sponsored competitions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, a weakened American team lost a track meet to the Russians in Richmond last month. More of the same seemed likely in a series of Soviet-American basketball games that will begin April 29 in Los Angeles. Last week N.C.A.A. Executive Director Walter Byers told the House Special Education Subcommittee that his organization would cooperate in the basketball event if the A.A.U. would formally apply for the services of undergraduate players. The A.A.U. promptly complied...
...years, and promise to grow bigger still. Though the N.C.A.A. has peddled the rights to telecast college football to ABC for $13.5 million, it is still acquisitive enough to covet the $35,000 that the A.A.U. is getting from CBS for television rights to the opening game of the Soviet-American basketball series...