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Shultz and Gromyko talked again privately for ten minutes or so after the ceremonies commemorating the 30th anniversary of the treaty that ended Allied occupation of Austria and granted the country permanent neutrality. In their speeches, both diplomats pointed to the Austrian treaty, which required ten years of East-West discussions, as an example of their difficult but hopeful work. Said Shultz: "This is a lesson we hope to see repeated in our negotiations with the Soviet Union...
Soviet officials are openly expressing their gloom about prospects for the talks and improved East-West relations. In Washington the mood is marginally less pessimistic. A top White House official professed to be "neither surprised nor disappointed" by the early impasse, contending that it was "necessary to get through talking at each other first...
Politicians and pundits debated the value of a summit conference at a time when East-West relations are mostly chilly. "It would serve to clear the air and to have a return to normalcy," said Dimitri Simes of Washington's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Malcolm Toon, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in the Carter Administration, disagreed vigorously. "I happen to feel summits aren't a very useful way of doing serious diplomatic or political business," he said. "It makes no sense for a U.S. President and a Soviet General Secretary to meet just in order...
...arguing the possibility of East-West collaboration, despite the ongoing competition that he labels the Third World war, he sensibly observes, "While the Soviets want the world, they do not want war." To critics who say that strengthening Third World economies will only add to the competitive pressure on American industry, he points out that the best current customers for U.S. products are industrialized Canada and Japan. In an inspirational final summons to "a peaceful revolution for progress in the Third World," Nixon brings back to mind the far-seeing foreign policy analyst whom Watergate, and Viet Nam, destroyed...
...myriad of performers will grace the CMAC stage in the coming months. Dance enthusiasts will have their pick of the Arts of Black Dance and Music (April 13) or the Chinese East-West Dance Theater (April...