As agreed in CSCE resolutions taken in Helsinki, Western observers take part in manoeuvres of the Warsaw Pact for the first time.
19 July
1977
Meeting between CPSU leader Leonid Brezhnev and SED General Secretary Erich Honecker in the Crimea: the party leaders agree to take measures to prevent the SPD/FDP government under West German Chancellor Schmidt from being succeeded by the CDU at parliamentary elections in 1978.
The Soviet party leader once more voices concern that the stream of travellers from West Germany to the GDR has not been stemmed; the West German government, he says, is singing "the same old song" about a rapprochement between the GDR and the FRG. He adds that attempts are also being made to "falsify our clear position" under the flag of Eurocommunism.less