Soviet Union, October 1970-October 1971This volume continues the practice established in the previous Foreign Relations volume on U.S.-Soviet relations and focuses on the relationship in the global context, highlighting the conflicts and collaboration between the two superpowers on foreign policy issues from October 1970 to October 1971. Beginning with the confrontation over the construction of a Soviet military base in Cuba, the volume documents the development of the Nixon administration's policy of détente and the crucial role of the private channel between Henry Kissinger, the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. The backchannel was key to making progress on the most problematic issues in U.S.-Soviet relations: Berlin, the war in Indochina, strategic arms limitation talks, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, and trade. It also allowed the two nations to avoid conflict and to cooperate on managing crises around the world, such as the Middle East dispute and the Indo-Pakistani conflict. The volume also includes documentation on the internal and bilateral negotiations for the timing of a visit by Nixon to the Soviet Union and ends with the public announcement in October 1971 of the May 1972 summit between Nixon and Brezhnev, the first U.S.-Soviet summit since 1967. The era of détente and cooperation between the superpowers had begun |
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... course , is very simply this : That is if we are going to the side- lines that there are going to be only two major contestants left on the field . The one will be the Soviet Union and the other will be Commu- nist China moving up . We ...
... course , is very simply this : That is if we are going to the side- lines that there are going to be only two major contestants left on the field . The one will be the Soviet Union and the other will be Commu- nist China moving up . We ...
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... course . I found that one point that went over very well today was that the President had many easy opportunities to yield to popular pressure but he felt that it was im- portant we end the war in Vietnam as a governmental decision and ...
... course . I found that one point that went over very well today was that the President had many easy opportunities to yield to popular pressure but he felt that it was im- portant we end the war in Vietnam as a governmental decision and ...
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... course many things supervened to affect events in ways that could not have been foreseen : Vietnam chiefly ; the Nixon election vic- tory ; Czechoslovakia ; the six - day war , etc. , etc. Applied to the latest episode , this line of ...
... course many things supervened to affect events in ways that could not have been foreseen : Vietnam chiefly ; the Nixon election vic- tory ; Czechoslovakia ; the six - day war , etc. , etc. Applied to the latest episode , this line of ...
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... course crucial to the persuasiveness of this argument that we should have reacted as we did on Cuba . Whether or not there is validity to this hypothetical reconstruction of Kremlin calculations and maneuverings , the point I really ...
... course crucial to the persuasiveness of this argument that we should have reacted as we did on Cuba . Whether or not there is validity to this hypothetical reconstruction of Kremlin calculations and maneuverings , the point I really ...
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... course , continue to watch the situation . " ( National Archives , RG 59 , Records of the Office of News , Transcripts of Daily News Conferences of the De- partment of State , Vol . 55 ) 5 . Memorandum From the President's Assistant for ...
... course , continue to watch the situation . " ( National Archives , RG 59 , Records of the Office of News , Transcripts of Daily News Conferences of the De- partment of State , Vol . 55 ) 5 . Memorandum From the President's Assistant for ...
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