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...timing of the Soviet announcement baffled U.S. officials. Some speculated Moscow might have been hoping that with attention focused on this week's Vance-Gromyko meeting in Geneva on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), the dissident trials would be spared the glare of international publicity. Others wondered whether the Kremlin was deliberately testing the Carter Administration's policy of not linking the Strategic Arms Talks with other events. It seemed certain, in either case, that the trials could not have been scheduled without top-level approval from the Kremlin. Said one State Department aide: "If the Russians...
...fate of the Soviet dissidents will undoubtedly be added to Vance's agenda for his sixth meeting with Gromyko in 16 months. Other matters that are sure to be discussed will be the latest developments in the Middle East, the continued Soviet intervention in Africa and the mounting harassment of American citizens in Moscow. Vance will give Gromyko a personal message from Carter addressed to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, warning that the Shcharansky and Ginzburg trials could injure U.S.Soviet relations. Carter has already ordered a review of all U.S.-Soviet cooperative agreements to find ways to dramatize U.S. concern...
Although U.S.-Soviet ties have been cooling for some months, the Administration has tried to insulate the SALT process from other controversies. Thus there is a chance that Vance and Gromyko will still be able to devote most of their time in Geneva to arms limitation, which Vance insisted last week was "in our national interest." Since SALT first convened in Helsinki nine years ago, progress toward curbing atomic arsenals has been frustratingly slow, and there has been no ban at all on offensive weapons since the SALT I ceilings expired last October...
Despite the considerable agreement on the shape of SALT II, a number of issues must still be resolved. According to one American negotiator: "Gromyko will open, as he does every time, by reiterating our errors and his country's munificence." Then the bargaining will begin...
...Vance and Gromyko resolve a couple of the key problems that have been blocking SALT II, the remaining issues could be left until September, when Gromyko will be in the U.S. for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Should those talks succeed, Carter might meet with Brezhnev in October to work out the final details and initial a draft treaty...