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OCR Page 1 of 42THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
REVIEW OF TUES. AM PAPERS/
DIGEST OF RECENT COMMENT
March 26, 1974
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
"Total Pursuit of Detente Is Pledged by US, Soviet" says p. 1
Inquirer head, w/p. 2 photo of smiling HAK/Brezhnev. Similar
wide, upbeat coverage elsewhere
LA Times leads: "HAK's Soviet
talks Push Detente / W'gate, US Political Foes of Improved Relations
Held No Threat, 11
Sun w/ bottom of p. 1 story, "Brezhnev Hopeful
on Arms As He, HAK Open Talks. 11 "K to Brezh: No Blackmail"
tops p. 6 in NY News.
HAK's job is "tough, 11 said M. Kalb on CBS AM. Tho it's
not mentioned, W'gate is hanging over talks, and HAK's warning
about blackmail was presumed to refer to that. Kalb sees little
or not progress re: MFR. As for M-E, he suggested Soviets are
"jealous" of HAK's success re: Egyptian-Israeli disengagement
and, thus, are pressing for Syrian-Israeli disengagement w/ talks
in Geneva rather than thru HAK. But big issue is SALT. It's
a "rough" agenda, said Kalb, and there's little prospect for any
grand achievements.
Monitor's Saikowski leads: "Whatever the challenges of getting
USSR agreement on next stage of SALT, climatic and political
atmospherics on HAK's 2nd day are upbeat. 11 HAK "echoed positive
tone" Brezhnev set. Saikowski reports that "from USSR vantage
point, 11 all indications are that leaders "consider detente to their
advantage and want to keep momentum going. 11
Noting HAK predicted, "We'll make concrete progress on a
number of issues, 11 Inquirer "hopes he's right -- but if he makes
even tentative progress in only 1 or 2 issues the visit will be worth-
while. 11 But "danger" is Soviets "may make proposals w/ more
window dressing than substance -- figuring HAK might be over-eager
for appearance of success. Momentum toward detente should be
maintained, by all means, but optimism needs to be restrained by
realism. Whatever's accomplished "during HAK's visit or RN"s in
June "will be steps in a long journey on which we've barely begun."
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