Word: moving
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Almost all U.S. foreign policy officials now agree that the Soviets have retaliated against Carter's China move by stalling SALT II. It had been expected that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would agree on all but a few technical details of a new treaty at their meeting in late December. But they deadlocked when the Russians suddenly raised issues that had already been settled. By delaying SALT II, Moscow was able to postpone the Carter-Brezhnev summit, which had been tentatively planned for the middle of this month, just a couple of weeks...
...used to good advantage by the man the President fears the most, Ted Kennedy. In talking about his plans for the session, the Massachusetts Senator is stressing his new job as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, but he cannot escape his role as leader of the liberals. His every move will inevitably be scrutinized for its political motivation, especially by the White House...
...permanent place at the banquet table. More than 25 American outfits have applied to set up shop in Peking, and about 15 are likely to be approved, about doubling the number of non-Communist news groups there. The Associated Press and United Press International will be the first to move in, probably by March 1; the major newspapers, the newsmagazines and the three networks will follow...
...timing was a surprise, but the move itself was not unexpected. "It is because Don is ready and I am ready," Kay Graham told the staff. "Actually, I suspect Don was ready before I was ready." Mrs. Graham, 61, who had run the paper since her husband Philip's suicide in 1963, remains chairman, chief executive and majority stockholder of the Post Co., which also owns Newsweek, papers in Trenton, N.J., and Everett, Wash., and four TV stations...
...self-styled prophet, Herbert W. Armstrong, 86, of not only lavish spending but "liquidating the properties of the church on a massive scale." The plaintiffs charge that in the past six months alone 50 pieces of church property, worth millions, have been sold. The attorney general's move touched off pandemonium; at one point, staffers at Pasadena headquarters tried to lock out state agents arriving to seize control, then were caught trying to spirit out church records...