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.more
