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What to do about the Soviet troops in Cuba? Laying the groundwork for an answer to that question has been the task before Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in two weeks of meetings at the State Department. Last week they huddled twice. There was no movement on the issue, at least none that was made public. It seemed likely that any significant shifts in both countries' positions would have to await Vance's meeting this week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...single code word cabled from Kissinger to Nixon, "Eureka, " advised that the trip had been successful. After returning from Peking, Kissinger and Aide Winston Lord drafted a report to Nixon that exulted: "We have laid the groundwork for you and Mao to turn a page in history." On July 15 Nixon informed stunned television viewers of Kissinger's secret trip and his own plan to visit China some time before May 1972. In October 1971. Kissinger returned to China, with a team of "advance men, "to prepare for Nixon's own visit...
...regard Dr. Tashjian's efforts as groundwork in a multidisciplinary approach to toxicology, and we were very impressed by what he intended to do in the future," Hitchings added...
...Catholic educational system has traditionally trained assertive, pioneering women and so has laid the groundwork for acceptance of modern feminist thought, Harriet K. Switzer, former president of Maryville College said yesterday in a discussion on women in Catholic education at the Radcliffe Forum...
...scheduled meeting. Talks with his Saudi counterpart, Minister of Defense and Aviation Prince Sultan, were also cordial. The American visitors were surprised, however, that the prince did not ask for specifics when Brown proposed a heightened U.S. military presence in the region. The Secretary had carefully set the groundwork for a discussion of that subject by outlining his−and the Administration's−three-point program for Middle Eastern stability...