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Carter's frustrations can only increase in the days to come. This week Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in New York City and Washington to try and narrow their differences in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a prospective agreement that faces formidable opposition in the Senate. Next month Carter will begin an uphill fight in Congress to lift the arms embargo against NATO ally Turkey, which was imposed in 1974 following Turkey's invasion of Cyprus. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 8 to 4 to retain the embargo, but Administration...
...official talks. Often Brezhnev's face appeared puffy, his movements stiff and his walk halting. He seemed to have difficulty moving the left side of his face and often slurred his words. At times he looked heavily drugged. After a picture-taking session with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Brezhnev tried to rise from the couch where he had been sitting, and his knees buckled; he quickly grabbed Gromyko's hand, drew himself up with Schmidt's help and walked away...
...three hours, then released. Soviet authorities blocked transmission of U.S. wire-service photos of the incident and prevented CBS from sending satellite pictures of the woman chained to the fence. The next day, embassy officials formally protested the interference, and Vance specifically mentioned the affair in his talks with Gromyko. That led to one of the most contentious exchanges of the visit, with Gromyko complaining sharply about the Carter Administration's continuing emphasis on human rights...
...Soviets in a Kremlin conference room, there were encouraging signs of renewed willingness to negotiate from the other side of the 30-ft. green felt-covered table. (As usual, however, the Russians arranged things so that the U.S. negotiators sat with the light in their eyes.) For one thing, Gromyko brought along Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, the Soviets' First Deputy Minister of Defense and chief of the Soviet general staff. His uniformed appearance was the first by a high-ranking military specialist at SALT negotiations since Gerald Ford met with Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in 1974. Gromyko also brought...
...that abrasive moment soon passed. At week's end U.S. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter was able to announce that "the overall tone was good" and that there had been "some movement on all the fundamental" SALT issues. During several hours of private talks in which Vance and Gromyko were joined only by their interpreters, the two managed to narrow disagreements on the definition of new missile types and on transferring technology, although little progress was made on the difficult Backfire issue. As expected, Vance and Gromyko agreed to meet for another round of SALT talks...