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...delegations will be led by the same men who chaired the lead-up talks in Helsinki. They are Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov, 58, the No. 3 man in the Kremlin Foreign Office, and Gerard C. Smith, 55, a Republican attorney who served as the State Department's special assistant for atomic affairs in the Eisenhower era. The two men reportedly developed a cordial, businesslike relationship during the five-week preliminary negotiations in Helsinki. After the opening session, their delegations will meet alternately in the U.S. and Soviet embassies in Vienna...
Complete Review. In the four months since the Helsinki talks ended, the Nixon Administration has undertaken a complete review of its negotiating strategy at SALT. The President has not lacked advice. Last week, for example, by an overwhelming vote of 72 to 6, the Senate passed a resolution calling on the Administration to propose "an immediate mutual moratorium" of indeterminate duration on the further deployment of all strategic nuclear weapons. The moratorium would include anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as well as MIRVs. Former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy urged the President to go even farther...
...relying increasingly on the argument that the U.S. must have ABM as what Laird called "a most important bargaining tool" in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviets when the sessions resume in Vienna next month. The U.S. SALT delegation came back from the opening round in Helsinki convinced that little obsesses the Soviets more than what the U.S. is up to in the ABM department. Hence the strategists' firm conclusion that the U.S. needs an ongoing program to induce the Russians to bargain seriously...
...Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who ordinarily handles Western European affairs, was preoccupied with negotiations with Peking, where he returned last week after a two-week recess in Moscow. Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov is engaged in the SALT negotiations, which after a successful five-week preliminary round in Helsinki will reopen in Vienna on April...
...Helsinki, Soviet and U.S. delegates to the preliminary Strategic Arms Limitation Talks continued discussions. The two sides have progressed far enough that they will probably wind up talks this week and begin formal discussions next year...