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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately, notes Kissinger, though Nixon was eager for a summit in 1970, the Soviets overreached themselves and Nixon "did not need it as desperately as Moscow reckoned." The U.S. bided its time, and soon the pendulum was swinging its way. In December 1970, trouble erupted on the Soviets' own doorstep with food-price riots in Poland. In July 1971 came the announcement of Nixon's trip to China. Less than four weeks later, the Soviets formally invited the U.S. President to visit Moscow in the spring of 1972. Kissinger served as a kind of diplomatic advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE SOVIET RIDDLE | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Soviet ambassadors are the product of a bureaucracy that rewards discipline and discourages initiative; of a society historically distrustful of foreigners; of a people hiding its latent insecurity by heavyhanded self-assertiveness. With some Soviet diplomats one has the uneasy feeling that they report in a way to suit the preconceptions of their superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Anatoli Dobrynin | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...suave not just by Soviet standards-which leave ample room for clumsiness-but by any criteria. He knew how to talk to Americans in a way brilliantly attuned to their preconceptions. He was especially skilled at evoking the inexhaustible American sense of guilt, by persistently but pleasantly hammering home the impression that every deadlock was our fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Anatoli Dobrynin | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Moscow summit got under way, Brezhnev proposed that there be a signing ceremony each afternoon for agreements reached beforehand. Nixon fell in step, observing that the Moscow morning papers would thus have something to report, while in the U.S. the signings would make the evening television shows. What Brezhnev thought of the proposition that the Moscow journals needed Nixon's help in finding news must be left to his autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: A Nose for News | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Maurice Chevalier once sang in bordello baritone to introduce Lerner and Loewe's Gigi, little girls grow up in the most delightful way. Leslie Caron certainly has; 21 years after the movie, the apprentice courtesan has matured into a Parisian Mrs. Robinson enticing or seducing three of her daughter's male school friends in a new French film Tous Vedettes (All Stars). At 48, Caron remains alluringly convincing as Lucille, the French actress who has come home to Paris from Hollywood successes to amuse herself with l'amour. The daughter is played by Kitty Kortes-Lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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