Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concern over détente increased last week after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's latest visit to Moscow. Kissinger left Washington with high hopes for progress in the three days of negotiations, specifically with regard to the second round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and more generally in the brittle areas of Middle East relationships, military-force levels in Europe and U.S.-Soviet trade. But hopes were deflated by the unexpectedly hard line on the part of Soviet negotiators. By the time Kissinger headed for home-and his wedding (see THE NATION)-he was visibly worried over...
SALT II. Buoyed by assurances from Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin that progress was possible, Kissinger hoped for a "conceptual breakthrough" in offensive missiles. In the SALT I agreement of two years ago, the two sides agreed on temporary numerical limits for ICBMS and submarine-launched missiles and limits on anti-ballistic missile systems. The U.S. was allowed 1,054 land-based missiles and 710 submarine-launched missiles, v. the Soviets' 1,618 land-based missiles and 950 submarine-launched missiles. The Soviet advantage in numbers of missiles was presumably counterweighed by U.S. superiority in accuracy, sophistication and numbers...
Despite lengthy discussions, the two sides were unable to agree on numbers and formulas that would create genuine parity between their nuclear forces. Kissinger's estimate of the situation was that "there was no breakthrough, but we made definite progress. There's a chance for agreement but no guarantee." Observed one high U.S. diplomat on the homeward flight from Moscow: "It did not go as far as Dobrynin had said it might. Perhaps the Secretary was too optimistic in following his lead...
...nation's best-known journalists. The Shame of the Cities, a book based on his exposes of big-city corruption, helped arm the short-lived reform movement whose grinning figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt. "The man with the muckrake" is what T.R. (borrowing from Pilgrim's Progress) called Steffens, thus giving generations of crossword-puzzle workers the nine-letter word muckraker...
Wodehouse characters, Waugh once said, "have never tasted the forbidden fruit. They are still in Eden." Indeed, a wonderful, innocent foolishness makes them all irresistible: Wallace Chesney, Rodney Spelvin, Blizzard the butler, and the Wrecking Crew (four retired businessmen whose progress over the course resembles "one of those great race migrations of the Middle Ages"). As befits an idyl, the weather is routinely gorgeous ("butterflies loafed languidly, birds panted in the shady recesses of the trees"), and the sun shines gently...