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...talks as "businesslike." Next day they were "intensive." By the third day they were "worthwhile." In the artfully nuanced language of diplomacy, that signals progress. Indeed, a tender springtime bloom seemed to have returned to U.S.-Soviet relations as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko huddled last week in Geneva. Their meeting spanned a diplomatic climate more congenial to detente than the chill that had engulfed Vance's abortive mission to Moscow at the end of March...
Middle East were urging Arab leaders to try to tone down the most vitriolic press reaction to Begin's victory on the ground that it is an unnecessary provocation. During an interlude in their negotiations on SALT, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed the Middle East and agreed that despite the uncertainties created by the Israeli election, a Geneva conference should be reconvened this year. They decided to initiate monthly consultations at the ambassadorial level in Washington and Moscow to underscore the two superpowers' shared commitment to a negotiated Middle East settlement...
...Europe this week for very different kinds of talks. The assignment of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown: to meet in Brussels with America's closest European allies to discuss ways of strengthening NATO. The assignment of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: to confer in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko about a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. The SALT talks could affect the status of U.S.-Soviet relations for years to come...
...round in those 7½ years of talks opened with preliminary discussions in Geneva last week. The outcome, once Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sit down at the conference table, could well cause the atmospheric pressure between the two nations to rise rapidly or fall. The surface winds out of the East are blustery. Writing in Pravda, Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov charged that "aggressive imperialist forces are speeding up the arms race" and trying to "impede positive changes in international relations...
...SALT, perhaps, if not an end to detente. The Soviets had rebuffed as unacceptable new strategic arms proposals offered by the Carter Administration. In addition, there was a continuing volley of and-American rhetoric in the Soviet press and the angry diatribe by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (TIME, April...