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Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev deserve a big hand for SALT [June 25]: to make the world safer for everyone is a great achievement. Let's hope it works...
Surely there will be enough knowledgeable minds in the Senate to see this treaty for what it really is and send it back to Brezhnev...
...conference and declared that any changes in the treaty would be fatal. Said Gromyko: "It would be the end of negotiations. It would be impossible, whatever amendments might be added." Western diplomats were struck by the toughness of Gromyko's language, which underscored the position taken by Leonid Brezhnev at the Vienna summit...
...Kremlin is well aware of Byrd's key role in this fall's treaty debate and agreed to a private meeting between him and Brezhnev, who is vacationing in the Crimea. Byrd is expected to tell the Soviet leader that any further pronouncements like Gromyko's will only harden resistance to the treaty in the Senate. Brezhnev is likely to signal his understanding that it might be better to ease off until the Senate acts. But Western diplomats warned that if Byrd intends to lobby the Soviet leader for amendments that might make the treaty more acceptable...
...many as 500. China has taken 230,000 refugees so far, but is reluctant to take more. The U.S. had hoped to encourage the Soviet Union to lean on the Vietnamese to ease up on their ethnic Chinese minority. President Carter broached the subject to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at Vienna two weeks ago, but got nowhere...