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Show "I predict that not very much will sumcome out of the Brezhnev-Nixo- n some small SALT mit conference agreements perhaps limiting defensive nuclear missiles and certain offensive weapons systems but not much beyond that. Unless, of course, Nixon is mutual dewilling to sign a fense pact against the People's Republic of China. Brezhnev would like that." Soviet reference books are notoriously unreliable and inadequate in their treatment of Soviet statesmen. Their biographies are subject to rigorous annual revision. Even when a Soviet leader like Brezhnev is held in the highest light, practically no information on his private life is available from any Soviet source. No one, for example, at the Soviet embassies in London, Vienna, Belgrade, or Washington could tell me the names of Brezhnev's parents, whether they were still alive. No one knew how many brothers or sisters he has, his official salary as General Secretary of the Communist Party. No one knew how long or where he had been married or whether in fact at age 65 he is a grandfather. From unofficial sources I learned that he has been married to Victoria, his who specializes in gynephysician-wif- e for 40 years. They have three cology, U.S.-Sovi- children, an attractive, divorced daughter, Galina, who writes feature stories for the Novosti News Agency, and two sons, one a journalist, and another, Yuri, who works for the Ministry of Foreign Trade. red-hair- Brother is scientist et Brezhnev also has a metallurgist brother, Yakov, who a few years ago was sent to Warsaw to help increase steel productivity in Poland. In Moscow the Leonid Brezhnevs ocflat at 26 Kutuzovsky cupy a Pro'Dect to which they were assigned in 1952 when Brezhnev was appointed a member of the Party Central Comof its mittee and a candidate-membe- r Presidium. The apartment consisted originally of three rooms. It was expanded when Brezhnevs mother came to live with them. Most probably his five-roo- father is m dead. Brezhnev, like Nixon, is an avid sports fan. Watching soccer is his favorite spectator sport. He claims that driving "relaxes me," and frequently takes turns or the driving the Kremlin Rolls-Roycar the French gifted him last fall. His wife is a "green-fingere- d gardener" who prefers to spend most of g time at the Brezhnev her "dacha" (country house). CTuG3 Until recently it was felt that Brezhnev was content to be a leading cog in the Soviet apparatus, industrious, colorless, and businesslike, but singularly without any kingly ambitions. Apparently that has changed, and El Supremo juices are now swiftly coursing through his veins. Last September West German Chancellor Willy Brandt came away from his talks with the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary with the news that the Politburo had assigned new areas of foreign policy responsibility to Brezhnev, Podgorny, and Kosygin. World divided Brandt told Washington that Brezhnev had been assigned the U.S. and Western Europe, Premier Kosygin had been assigned the Middle East, "Third World" countries, and minor Western nations, while Podgorny was charged with overseeing Vietnam. Like all Soviet leaders, Brezhnev is most afraid of the Red Chinese. He feels they are erratic, fanatic, unreasonable, and constitute a far greater threat to the Soviet Union than the United States. He realizes that the Chinese outnumber his people almost 4 to 1 and are determined to regain somehow the border lands stolen from them by the czars. Brezhnev first encountered Nixon in Moscow in 1959 during the "Kitchen Khrushchev and between take did not He Nixon. kindly to the then Vice President, largely because Nixon, a veteran and masterful debater, easily outpointed his boss. Debate" Argument started When Nixon explained that the U.S. model house then on display in the U.S. national exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park was well within the means of the average U.S. working-clas- s family at $14,000, Khrushchev became excessively defensive. "You Americans think," he challenged, "that the Russian people will be astonished to see these things. The fact is that all our new houses have this kind of equipment." Calmly replied Nixon: "We do not claim to astonish the Russian people. We hope to show our diversity and our right to choose. We do not want to have decisions made at the top by one government official that all houses should be built the same way." KHRUSHCHEV: "We are capable of building washing machines. Our washing machines are as good as any in the world." NIXON: "Is it not far better to be talking about washing machines than machines of war like . . . rockets? You are strong and we are strong. 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