Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejoined each other at the State Opera House for a performance of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The crowd applauded as Carter entered the presidential box, clapped louder when Brezhnev and Kirchschläger arrived and roared with approval when Carter and Brezhnev returned the applause. At one point, Brezhnev leaned forward and murmured "Ochen khorosho" (very good). Carter nodded in agreement. Carter and Brezhnev left after the second act, presumably to get a full night's sleep before beginning their formal discussions next...
...first session was scheduled for two hours but broke up after only 85 min., since the two leaders needed less time than expected to spell out their differing world views. There was also what Powell called "a good deal of back-and-forth." At one point, Brezhnev and Carter engaged in a spirited exchange over which nation is spending more for weapons. The two leaders also expressed sharply opposed views about the world's trouble spots, including who was responsible for the turbulence in the Middle East and southern Africa. Finally, Brezhnev pushed his chair back from the table...
Carter and Brezhnev seemed to get along well. The U.S. President was polite and restrained, but not as relaxed as the Soviet leader. Brezhnev hammed it up by pretending to leave the room from time to time. At one point he declared: "We think everybody is for détente and good relations except for some people." He then jokingly pointed at Vance. Everyone at the table laughed. Brzezinski, who is usually the Administration's hard-liner on Soviet policy, pointed to himself, and everyone laughed again...
...Hollywood syndrome has reached CinemaScopic dimensions since Kennedy's time. But when some of the Middle East negotiating was actually staged by the evening news we were very close to changing the nature of diplomacy. Vienna may have been that turning point...
...Argentina to develop a bomb more quickly. No editor at the conference said he would have printed the article. Nor were editors impressed by Editor Erwin Knoll's stated motive to attack secrecy as unworkable and thus somehow to frustrate the nuclear arms race. Couldn't the point be made, they wondered, without illustrating the secret in question...