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...Tiff. In a letter to Carter last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev rejected Carter's invitation to an early summit; any such meeting, said Brezhnev, must await agreement on a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. To transmit that message, Brezhnev called U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon to the Kremlin for a table-thumping attack on Carter's Soviet policy...
Disquieting Result. It may be that the Soviets are miffed as much-or more -by Carter's style as by the substance of U.S. proposals. At a summit meeting with Brezhnev, Carter would probably defend his practice of promoting democracy and human rights, but would point out at the same time that he is not seeking to scuttle U.S.-Soviet detente. Carter said at his press conference that he sought a relationship with Brezhnev "not just to ratify a final agreement but to get to know one another...
Rosalynn Carter may have disconcerted her somewhat formal South American hosts by speaking so casually on her recent tour of what "Jimmy" thought and what "Jimmy" meant to do. When "Jimmy" was in London for the economic summit, he went out of his way to get on a first-name basis with a difficult character named "Helmut." But West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, with chilly punctilio, insisted on calling Carter "Mr. President." Tass, the Soviet news agency, would have none of the amiable diminutive either; in the course of attacking his human rights policy, Tass has haughtily referred to Rosalynn...
Stricter Controls. Meanwhile, Bonn's relations with Washington remain cool. Although Carter at the London summit in May eased up on his demands that Schmidt should reflate the German economy, deep differences on nuclear policy remain. Bonn two weeks ago announced it would stop "for the time being" export of nuclear reprocessing and recycling plants. Schmidt insists that the Carter goal of a permanent ban is "unrealistic," since countries seeking atomic technology can easily buy it from the Soviet Union. When the two leaders meet in Washington in mid-July, Schmidt will repeat his argument to Carter that nonproliferation...
...teau Rambouillet. the luxurious 14th century castle 33 miles southwest of Paris. Thereupon he launched into a 2½-hr. dissertation on détente and disarmament. Brezhnev defended the Soviet Union as the only country in the world that had incorporated the principles of the Helsinki summit in its constitution...