Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems that SALT II will probably follow the general formula approved at the November 1974 summit in Vladivostok-just as Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev has been insisting it must. While the relatively high ceilings (2,400 strategic launchers for each side) permitted by the Vladivostok guidelines may be lowered a bit in SALT II's final draft, the very substantial slashes in the U.S. and Soviet arsenals sought by President Jimmy Carter will have to await SALT...
...arms talks-it was apparently decided to ignore them in a SALT II treaty. Instead, development and deployment of these new weapons will probably be restrained somewhat by a separate protocol that will run for only about three years; this will give negotiators time to find a permanent formula to regulate them...
...what I am," Vorster told the press, "but I'll be damned if I'll be hanged for what I am not." Like Vorster, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha implied that Washington had tried to push too far. "If the U.S. demands from us a political formula that means our own destruction, then we will say no," he declared. "As in the biblical story, if you blind our eyes, then we will pull down the pillars...
...about intervening in any place where there's a poor political base for our presence." Brown also learned a more personal lesson. Says a colleague: "Viet Nam showed him there are some problems that have no neat solution, no technical answer, no matter how many times you redo the formula...
...personal search for a new Middle East peace formula, President Carter has met with former Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein and, last week in Geneva, Syria's President Hafez Assad. Carter's diplomatic approach, reinforced by heavy doses of his down-home charm, has drawn mixed reviews. The Arabs love it. The Israelis are almost as suspicious of Carter as they were of Henry Kissinger...