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...Ford and Brezhnev. The U.S. was anxious for a sign of some momentum toward a SALT II agreement and perhaps some progress in the currently deadlocked Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks, whose aim is to reduce military forces in Central Europe. Indeed, the U.S. believes some sort of headway is necessary before a Ford-Brezhnev summit can take place in Washington this fall. At their first meeting, over a mahogany table at the U.S. embassy, the two leaders talked for two hours and professed to be making some progress...
...think we built on the doctrine of the previous Administration. If we can perform an effective role in the Middle East, if we can make some substantial achievements in SALT II, MBFR, in our relationship with the Soviet Union, if we can make headway in our relationship with China, keep a presence in Southeast Asia and have an impact on maintaining the peace in that area . . . I don't like to label what we are doing a "doctrine." I would rather have this Administration known as a problem-solving Administration in the pages of history...
...weaving his way through the Harvard bureaucracy. It has to be done carefully; Crooks knows that certain administrators, the ones who will have to pay for the air-conditioning, will be harder to persuade than others. So he begins with the Buildings and Grounds Department and makes little headway. "This is Thomas Crooks," he tells one man's secretary. "Director of the Summer School, C-R-O-O-K-S. Yes. It's about the air-conditioning in Canaday Hall. It's 495-2921." They don't know him over there...
...industry is growing, so is agriculture; since 1965 there has been an impressive 3% yearly increase in crop output. Mechanization has not yet made much headway, and work in the fields is as backbreaking as it has been for centuries. "For years the West has had an urban preoccupation," says a senior South Korean official, sounding vaguely Maoist. "Yet in modern Asian history it has been the peasantry which has been the moving force. We have tilted the allocation of resources toward the countryside...
Nobody is discounting the ineptitude of the opposition in the Democratic Congress. It is staggering. In such an atmosphere, almost any reasonable overture by a President makes headway. Ford's spring high could fade with bad luck or a firm adversary. But political momentum, whether down or up, tends to reinforce itself, and Ford is climbing...