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...foreign affairs, new fighting in Cambodia threatens an expansion of the war?and at home, dissent about the war is blooming once again with the spring. The Senate last week approved, 72 to 6, a resolution calling for a Soviet-American freeze on deployment of both offensive and defensive strategic nuclear weapons. As the U.S. resumes arms negotiations with the Russians, the Administration wants a free hand in the bargaining rather than backseat driving from Capitol Hill. And as if all this were not bothersome enough, a new Louis Harris poll, taken just before the Carswell rejection, discloses this week...
...state. Yet, as the Israelis themselves point out, Washington's interests do not and need not necessarily mirror Jerusalem's at every turn. The U.S. is justifiably concerned lest the festering hostilities in the Middle East erupt into another major war, renewing the danger of a Soviet-American confrontation. It is not at all inconsistent for the U.S. to guarantee Israel's survival while at the same time seeking a solution to the impasse that may not satisfy Israel completely. Nor is it improper for the U.S. to attempt to maintain what influence it can among...
...between the two Communist giants came during a Moscow news conference conducted by the Soviet Union's tough but soft-spoken Foreign Ministry press chief, Leonid Zamyatin. In the midst of the conference, Huang Chung-chich, the New China News Agency's man in Moscow, leaped to his feet to ask why the Kremlin had permitted publication of an article in a new Soviet industrial newspaper that referred to Taiwan as a "country." Peking had protested the reference as evidence of Soviet-American collusion against the Communist Chinese, who claim Taiwan as their very own. A tart exchange...
...positive outcome of the talks would undoubtedly help improve Soviet-American relations and preserve and strengthen the peace. -Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny...
...possibility that talk once again might turn into violence placed added urgency on Soviet-American attempts to work out a Middle East blueprint for peace. As a result of discussions between Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, the two nations last week were reportedly near agreement on peace terms. The U.S. is said to have conceded that Israel must return to the border with Egypt that existed before the 1967 war. Russia and the U.S. were also said to have agreed that Israel must accept the return of Palestinian refugees on a quota basis...