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...that caused two senior Cabinet officers to fly to 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...
Brown gets along well with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The three keep in touch via daily phone chats and weekly lunches in an attempt, as an aide puts it, "to prove that the infighting of the Nixon and Ford era does not have to be the norm." At meetings on U.S. SALT policy, says a State Department negotiator, "Brown is the dominating figure. He knows so incredibly much about nuclear weapons and the strategic balance that everyone defers to him. When the President isn't there, Brown is the de facto chairman...
...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...
...will not be a substitute for [Secretary of State] Cyrus Vance or [U.N. Ambassador] Andrew Young. Those responsibilities all stay in place. There was an impression that I was moving in to take over from those other agencies...
Carter, who was driven around London in a tan bulletproof Lincoln, stayed at the heavily guarded Winfield House, the elegant Regent's Park residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Senior members of his staff, like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, did not fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia...