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...raced to synthesize five years of notes - replete with diplomatic circumlocutions and the technical jargon of weaponry - into a lucid history of SALT. But Christmas came late, and history had to wait. Only last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin reached a general agreement on the proposed treaty, could Talbott complete his project. Talbott's narrative, part of this week's 15-page Special Report on SALT, is accompanied by Associate Editor Burton Pines' appraisal of the terms of the treaty and an assessment of the great Senate debate ahead...
...SALT II agreement announced by Vance is still only a working document. U.S. and Soviet negotiators in Geneva will resolve a few technical differences and prepare the final formal wording. The SALT II draft is 76 pages. It contains a preamble, treaty, protocol, statement of principles and several appendices. The treaty itself, which will run until the end of 1985, generally follows the outline set in 1974 at Vladivostok by Brezhnev and Gerald Ford and imposes equal numerical limits on the two strategic arsenals. Using weapon launchers as the basis for measuring these arsenals (it would be almost impossible...
Harrington Benjamin, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, said yesterday the Council did not reach a decision, but he expected it would come to an agreement by the end of this academic year...
...Moscow: "Brezhnev could attend a couple of dinners and read a paper or two, but he is in no shape to engage in real give-and-take with Carter. It will be a pro forma summit, and it would be useless to expect anything more." Though signing a SALT agreement would be very important, Carter is disappointed at the lack of prospects for going further. Said a top White House adviser: "The President really wanted to sit down and have a good exchange with Brezhnev. We might have been able to do that a year ago, when he was stronger...
Well aware of the Senate criticism of the impending SALT agreement, both officials took pains to rebut charges that the U.S. is becoming a second-rate power. Said Vance: "The distorted proposition being advanced by some that America is in a period of decline in the world is not only wrong as a matter of fact but dangerous as a basis for policy." If the U.S. shies away from military intervention abroad, he said, that is a sign not of weakness but of a mature recognition that "our military forces cannot provide a satisfactory answer to the purely internal problems...