Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of Brezhnev's health casts a long shadow over the nearly completed Strategic Arms Limitation treaty-and indeed over all of U.S.-Soviet relations. If Brezhnev is unable to see the marathon negotiations through to the end, a settlement and signing might be delayed for months-perhaps indefinitely. The very prospect of the struggle for succession may have been an element in the repeated delays over the Strategic Arms Limitation treaty...
...effort to resolve the remaining differences as quickly as possible, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin met twice in Washington last week. Their urgency was a shared one; the responses to Washington from Moscow had rarely come faster. Vance and Dobrynin were expected to settle the last issue this week. It was a minor loophole in the proposed freeze on the number of warheads permitted on each missile. Vance and Dobrynin then were expected to plunge immediately into negotiating the time and place for the Carter-Brezhnev summit-probably in June at a neutral capital...
...meet Moscow's seeming willingness to make concessions, the Carter Administration has lately taken great pains to be conciliatory. Last week it moved quickly to knock down reports of a new Soviet missile, the SS-21, being deployed in Central Europe. Said a senior American official: "It's not all that terribly important." The White House pointedly made only a mild response to Soviet harassment of two Moscow correspondents for U.S. magazines, Robin Knight of U.S. News & World Report and Peter Hann of Business Week. Said a White House aide: "I can just picture some dumb flunky doing...
...Soviet side, the release of the dissidents was only part of the Kremlin's effort to appear benign.* The flow of Jewish emigration, which the U.S. Congress has made a precondition of the granting of most-favored-nation trading status to the Soviets, is swelling to record levels. Some Congressmen believe that the tough trade policy forced the Kremlin to ease its emigration policy. That view, however, is disputed by Administration specialists. They argue that by Unking freer trade with freer emigration Congress actually caused Moscow to clamp down on exit visas for about two years to demonstrate that...
...total of Jews permitted to leave the Soviet Union since Jan. 1 is 17,000. The figure is expected to be about 50,000 by the end of the year, compared with 30,000 in 1978 and 16,700 in 1977. Moreover, bureaucratic hassling of Soviet Jews who apply for exit visas has declined dramatically. It may be that the Soviets now would simply be glad to get rid of the problem. By letting some dissidents leave, U.S. officials suggest, the Soviets can eliminate them as focal points for unrest. Similar reasoning may have helped persuade the Kremlin to permit...