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...since the Inauguration, the Reagan Administration of necessity last week turned its attention to foreign policy. Important visitors-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet and Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir-were in Washington to get acquainted with the new Administration. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was speaking out in Moscow, giving his first-and unexpectedly moderate-response to Ronald Reagan's tough anti-Communist talk. Congress, as well as some of America's allies, was beginning to ask troublesome questions about whether the Administration's desire to draw the line against...
...place, all of the nations accused by the State Department vehemently deny military involvement in El Salvador, and have publicly wondered why, if Mr. Reagan is so upset about this conspiracy, he has not bothered to contact their embassies or make any other effort at official communication. In fact, Leonid Brezhnev has asked our President to a summit meeting, in which the issue of El Salvador could be thoroughly discussed in an atmosphere free of rumors. But Reagan declined...
...Western diplomat noted, the easing of external pressure on Warsaw could well be due only "to a desire for peace and quiet within the East bloc during the upcoming Soviet Party Congress in Moscow." In presiding over that nine-day Communist extravaganza, which begins this week, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev will want to paint Moscow's empire in the most favorable light possible; thus the timing of Poland's apparent labor truce works to the Kremlin's advantage. But when Kania returns from Moscow, his ears will almost certainly be ringing with stern warnings to halt...
...break with Moscow altogether. Last week, in a rare public display of a Communist family quarrel, the Soviet Communist Party was revealed as having blasted Berlinguer in no uncertain terms. The Italian weekly Panorama published a confidential letter from the Soviet Cen tral Committee, obviously with the imprimatur of Leonid Brezhnev, rebuking the Italians for showing too much solidarity with Solidarity...
Neither of the two parties challenged the document's authenticity; but each denied having leaked it. In Moscow, Party Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin told reporters that "your best sources would be in Rome." Ital ian Communist Party officials were equally evasive, hinting that the Kremlin might have leaked the letter to discredit Berlinguer in the eyes of hard-line party members. Panorama Journalist Carlo Rossella added to the mys tery, explaining that he had been given a translation of the letter at a surreptitious meeting in a Milan restaurant. But he refused to identify the informant...