Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arose. We asked for on-site inspection, and after prolonged wrangling the Soviets agreed. Never before had they done so. But by then detente had been engulfed in controversy in America and doubt in Moscow. At home, the threshold test ban failed not by attracting bitter animosity, as with SALT, but by indifference. Most liberals, preferring a comprehensive test ban, fought the agreement and killed the first breakthrough toward on-site inspection. Conservatives saw no reason to rescue causes liberals had abandoned...
...SALT was the most difficult issue at the 1974 summit. It had become a whipping boy in a deeper struggle over the entire nature of U.S.-Soviet relations and even over Nixon's fitness to govern. Even so, after meetings near Yalta in the Crimea, where Brezhnev had taken our whole party for a few days, it was decided that I would not accompany Nixon on a visit to Minsk but would return to Moscow to see whether progress could be made...
...strange thing was that by all normal criteria, the summit was a success. Significant agreements had been signed-not so fundamental as on previous occasions, but the sort of accords that showed that the two superpowers took progress in their relationship seriously. Even in SALT we had come much closer to an understanding of each other's position than was generally realized; otherwise it would not have been possible for a new President to conclude the negotiations within four months of entering office as Ford did at Vladivostok-an agreement that has yet to be improved in more than...
...Soviet Ministry of Defense, according to Anatoli Dobrynin, Moscow's Ambassador to the U.S., did not have much use for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). It consistently put its most unimaginative and unenterprising general on the SALT delegation, he said, with instructions to block any initiative put forward by the Foreign Ministry, which was technically in charge of the negotiations. The Defense Ministry's attitude was allegedly summed up in a remark on SALT by Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Grechko to Dobrynin: "If you want my personal opinion, I'll give...
...KILLER SALT screams the book cover from a huge display of volumes with titles like Shake the Salt Habit!, Cooking Without a Grain of Salt and Halt! No Salt. These days they are selling in the the hundreds of thousands...