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...extraordinary presidential order indicated the extent to which U.S.-Soviet relations have deteriorated in recent months. It comes at a moment when delicate East-West negotiations are under way in Helsinki, Berlin and Warsaw. While the growing gulf between Washington and Moscow has not led to a suspension of any talks, it certainly has not improved the atmosphere around the conference tables...
...contradictory hot-and-cold atmosphere pervades current East-West relations. On one hand, the U.S. and Soviet Union are resuming their critical Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Helsinki this week. Last week the two powers agreed in Moscow to continue working toward compatible docking systems for their spacecraft, which could lead to eventual joint ventures beyond the earth. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, on his way home from a U.S. visit, became the first Soviet official of his rank ever to visit West Germany; while there, he conferred with Bonn's Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and hinted that...
...midst of new uncertainties in U.S.-Soviet relations, the third round of the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) opens this week in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Negotiators expect it to last only about six weeks, all but ruling out any formal agreement on the enormously complex subject. The U.S. is hopeful nonetheless that the Soviets will reply to the comprehensive arms plan presented by the Nixon Administration last June...
...Gromyko to the White House for what turned out to be a two-hour and 40-minute talk. Both men were aware that the current tension in U.S.Soviet relations has cast a shadow over the crucial Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which are scheduled to reconvene next week in Helsinki. Although Gromyko emphasized Soviet hopes for a successful agreement, the Kremlin has raised American suspicion by stepping up experiments with two models of MIRV (multiple, independently targeted re-entry vehicle), which are designed to be borne by the giant S59 and the smaller SS-11 missiles. In response, the Pentagon...
Stoking Fears. American strategists fear that the new Soviet capability could complicate the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) with the Russians, due to resume in Helsinki next month. Moreover the intensive Russian experimentation comes at a time when Washington is becoming increasingly nervous about Moscow's intentions in a number of areas-from Suez, where Soviet SA-2 and SA3 missiles have been emplaced in violation of the Mideast truce, to the Cuban sugar port of Cienfuegos, where Russian technicians are building a base capable of handling missile-carrying submarines...