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...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...
Iron Pants. Progress will not be easy. The chill that developed between Washington and Moscow when Jimmy Carter criticized repression of Soviet dissidents deepened in March with Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev's brusque refusal to consider the new Administration's pioneering proposals for a sweeping reduction of nuclear weapons. Brezhnev's "nyet," however, put the Soviet Union on the defensive, and Moscow has since been working hard at trying to show it is not stonewalling on arms limitation. Earlier this month, three top Soviet Americanologists visited the U.S. in hopes of convincing Congressmen and Administration officials that...
...should take alarm at the first experiment with out liberties." Dean Archie Epps, as the College Administration's heavy hand, has lately been experimenting with considerable heat; and the editors of the "Lampoon" have apparently--and disappointingly--done a rather fast wilt in that atmosphere. As to the chill the Epps decision has cast on their collective sense of humor, that remains to be seen. The entire affair, as a matter of fact, has been characterized by resolute humorlessness on all sides. The Sullen Seventies must truly be upon us now that we've begun deciding that the First Amendment...
...record the event. The British, who are not uncomfortable with imperial trappings-as their guest professes to be-rolled out a rich red carpet for him. The President stepped from his plane, carrying an efficient little briefcase instead of his usual suit bag. He stood in the nighttime chill, without an overcoat, and listened as British Prime Minister James Callaghan remarked that the task before the summit meeting was "nothing less than to overcome poverty, to get people to work and our economies in a healthier state than they...
...many supporters of free trade tend to be fair-weather friends. When the economic climate is sunny, nations are delighted to trade as much as possible with one another. But when a recession chill sets in, they hunker down and try to protect themselves from their neighbors' goods. That is what happened as a result of the severe 1973-75 recession; trading barriers were partially rebuilt, and they are beginning to have a permanent look. The world could become much more protectionist, especially if the U.S. goes along with the trend...