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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...
...Toon also became involved in another U.S.-Soviet tiff. Russia's television network refused to broadcast the ambassador's July 4 address to the Soviet people, an annual event since 1974, because he would not delete a passage that said, "Americans will continue to state publicly their belief in human rights and their hope that violations of these rights, wherever they may occur, will end." Unwisely, Toon had not cleared his text with Washington...
...Carter sees it, the Kremlin, while waging a propaganda battle with the U.S., continues to pursue the fundamental Soviet interest in SALT and détente. Brezhnev's letter and his dressing down of Toon were "decidedly less strong than the Tass account of the affair," noted a top White House aide. Besides, Brezhnev's meeting with Toon had its constructive side. TIME has learned that Brezhnev had put off meeting with Toon, who is perceived as a hardliner, despite Toon's repeated requests for a meeting after he arrived in Moscow last December; the Kremlin boss...
...United States, received yesterday Bukovsky, a criminal law offender from the Soviet Union who is known as an active opponent of the development of Soviet-American relations." On the day of the White House meeting, at which Vice President Walter Mondale was also present, U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon was summoned to Moscow's foreign ministry for "a frank exchange of views" on U.S.-Soviet relations-in short, for a chewing...
...redeployed closer to Israel. The Israelis were also concerned about reports that Syria was moving antiaircraft missiles into Lebanon. Israel considered that a threat, since no planes have been involved in a major way in the Lebanese fighting. Both Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon cautioned Israeli officials not to push Damascus too hard, lest Syria feel it had to respond to the challenge or lose face. Privately, American officials said they did not believe that either Israel or Syria would make a move along the border that would risk an outbreak...