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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... position on the Berlin negotia- tions . The opposite was the result . The talks are not at an impasse nec- essarily . Why the Soviets are now holding a tough line is not clear . Some people think it is a general toughening of the line ...
... position on the Berlin negotia- tions . The opposite was the result . The talks are not at an impasse nec- essarily . Why the Soviets are now holding a tough line is not clear . Some people think it is a general toughening of the line ...
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... position while cov- ering their tracks with a tough public position . 10 They are , however , almost surely aiming to consolidate the gains they have already made through the ceasefire / standstill violations . Thus their phrase " the ...
... position while cov- ering their tracks with a tough public position . 10 They are , however , almost surely aiming to consolidate the gains they have already made through the ceasefire / standstill violations . Thus their phrase " the ...
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... position that it favored economic but not political ties between West Germany and West Berlin . I said this came very close to the old free city idea . Dobrynin said this had always been their position . On SALT Dobrynin said that not ...
... position that it favored economic but not political ties between West Germany and West Berlin . I said this came very close to the old free city idea . Dobrynin said this had always been their position . On SALT Dobrynin said that not ...
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... position . K : They know that if Dobrynin had come in to you at the end of July and said now I hope you understand we are not bound by that agreement that we would have acted differently . R : I said you go ahead and take that position ...
... position . K : They know that if Dobrynin had come in to you at the end of July and said now I hope you understand we are not bound by that agreement that we would have acted differently . R : I said you go ahead and take that position ...
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... position in Eastern Europe . ) Your Purposes and Basic Message Your overriding purpose in this conversation is - to put across the points- -that you make the fundamental decisions concerning foreign policy , -that your purposes are ...
... position in Eastern Europe . ) Your Purposes and Basic Message Your overriding purpose in this conversation is - to put across the points- -that you make the fundamental decisions concerning foreign policy , -that your purposes are ...
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