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...explosion of the SALT talks in Moscow (see THE WORLD), but Carter is extraordinarily confident. "I have no reason to wish we had done anything differently," he says. "I have no second thoughts at all. There is a much closer relationship between me and [Soviet Party Chief Leonid] Brezhnev-and between [Secretary of State Cyrus] Vance and [Soviet Ambassador Anatoli] Dobrynin-than anyone knows about." He says that "encouraging" communications on the subject are taking place between Moscow and Washington on a regular basis...
...that all the early alarms had been much too strident. To begin with, the Soviets indicated that they might have overreacted to the Administration's position. The decidedly mellowing tone was set during a Kremlin dinner for visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, at which Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev suggested that the Moscow chill had not been intended as a deepfreeze. He referred to the U.S. as "our partners" and scolded the Americans for "losing their constructive approach" and for adhering to a "onesided position." A "reasonable accommodation is possible" in arms limitation, he declared, if the U.S. would...
...specific indications that both sides had read the danger signals correctly and decided to shift their diplomacy into a lower key. At midweek Vance received Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin at the State Department for an unannounced and fruitful meeting. Later, Carter disclosed that he had received personal assurances from Brezhnev that the Soviet Union was as serious as the U.S. in its pursuit of a new agreement. Then, in a statement that was both conciliatory in tone and extraordinary in concept, Carter declared that if the Soviets gave him evidence that the U.S. proposals presented at Moscow were inequitable...
...There was no rudeness, none at all. The discussions were businesslike and frank. General Secretary [Leonid] Brezhnev said he intended to be frank, and I said I appreciated that and would be frank too. I found him courteous and straightforward...
After more than two years of tough negotiations, a first-stage agreement was signed in Moscow by President Richard Nixon and Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev on May 26, 1972. One section of SALT I-as this agreement is called -sharply limited the deployment of defensive anti-ballistic missiles. The purpose: to prevent ABMs, which can destroy offensive missiles, from disrupting-or, as the experts put it, "destabilizing" -the mutual-assured-destruction balance. A second part of SALT I, dealing with offensive weapons, froze the U.S. strategic arsenal at 1,710 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles...