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Vance, with a 5-in. stack of black ring-binder briefing books in front of him, opened the talks by presenting new American proposals on how to resolve the key remaining technical problem: restrictions on developing new missile systems. This would be part of a three-year protocol that would accompany a SALT II treaty limiting levels of current offensive nuclear systems until 1985. Gromyko had proposed at the ministers' May meeting in Washington that new development be banned for the duration of the treaty, but the U.S. contended, as one delegate put it, "that was a goddam joke...
...timing of the protocol to limit technological development also poses problems. The U.S. argues that it should take effect retroactively, about when the SALT I ceilings expired, and should run until December 1980. But Moscow, which would like to keep the lid on U.S. technological developments as long as possible, wants the clock to start when the new accord is actually signed...
Rusk makes a good point. But Carter has enlarged his own problem. He is uncomfortable with bigness and complexity. He is suspicious of wealth and achievement, wary of tradition, protocol and many of the rituals of advanced urban society. In his populist fevers he sometimes seems mistakenly to champion mediocrity rather than excellence. Some of his prejudices seem to arise more from his small-town background than from reason and experience in a diverse world. A Congressman who went to the White House to argue tax reform with the President came away feeling that Carter made good sense until...
Meselson worked in 1974 for the ratification of the Geneva Protocol Treaty, which prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons...
...fact, one of the complaints about Margaret is that she has been so busy with Roddy that she has not been doing her job all that well lately. Last year she attended only 86 of the civic, cultural or charitable functions that protocol requires her to attend, compared with an average of 115 in the years before her marriage crumbled. So far in 1978 she has made only twelve royal appearances, although her schedule suddenly became busier after Elizabeth's talk at Windsor Castle. Before the flu hit her last week, the princess was due in Edinburgh to attend...