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...announcement, the White House intended-as one aide put it -to administer a "kick in the tail" to negotiators at the fourth round of SALT talks in Vienna. The diplomats, who are to recess shortly, were only too happy to get the boot; when they reconvene in Helsinki this summer, they will at last have something solid to discuss. One serious obstacle to an arms-limitation treaty had been overcome. In past talks, the U.S. had insisted upon putting a ceiling on both offensive and defensive nuclear weapons; it was especially fearful of the huge, 25-megaton Soviet S59 intercontinental...
ACROSS broad conference tables in Helsinki and Vienna, U.S. and Soviet negotiators have faced each other 68 times since the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began 18 months ago. Last week the two sides permitted themselves a change of scene. As guests of the Austrian government, 146 delegates and wives set out from Vienna for a spring weekend in the historic province of Carinthia aboard a special train complete with private compartments, dining cars and a dance band...
...summer in the 1930s. being in Europe, I went up to Finland to see Dr. [Jean] Sibelius. He was most gracious and we had long conversations. As you probably know, he lives about 25 miles outside of Helsinki at a place called Jarvenpaa. which means "Lake's End." One can go out from the capital by a little train in about an hour, or by motor car in less. His villa is built of logs and stands on a knoll among pines and silver birches overlooking the lake to the westward. At the foot of this knoll but still...
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Helsinki, which last week marked their first anniversary, the U.S. is resisting a Soviet demand that NATO's fighter-bombers be included in a general limitation of nuclear weapons...
...HELSINKI: As the third round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks resumed in Finland's capital, the Russians probed a U.S. proposal under which both sides would limit their strategic-weapons systems. They are understood to have countered with a proposal of their own, but the details remained secret...