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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko announced plans to depart for Moscow, and arrangements were made for reporters to be briefed extensively in the U.S. on the details of the new arms control treaty. In Washington, the White House alerted the TV networks that President Carter might be making a major statement that they would want to broadcast live. There was speculation a similar statement would be made in Moscow by Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The two leaders, it was assumed, would announce their long awaited summit in mid-January. Would there be any fallout on SALT from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Why Moscow Stalled SALT | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...leaders also discussed how the United States should negotiate the issue of "gray area" tactical nuclear weapons-- which pose a danger to major European cities -- in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summit in Guadeloupe | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

...fear that the recognition of Engelhard at this particular time may be interpreted by the South African government and its supporters as an indication of official acceptance--or at least tolerance--of apartheid by major American institutions," the legislators wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congressmen Ask for New Library Name | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...another major innovation, all admissions officers will participate in random screening of applicants, Federman said. In the past, most of the screening took place within the subcommittees...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Med School Revises Policy | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

Linda Rawson '76 joined the club to play squash, and says "it took a lot of fortitude to remain a member." She notes that women were allowed on only four of the eight squash courts and had no access to locker room facilities. However, a major renovation of the facilities in 1978 which improved quarters for women, made, as Rawson says, "a whole different world" for women...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

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