Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bright and early Saturday, Carter jogged five laps around a garden path at the American ambassador's residence, then left for the embassy. Soon afterward, Brezhnev emerged from the Soviet embassy. He stumbled momentarily and was steadied by aides, then helped into his Zil limousine. At the U.S. Embassy he was welcomed by Carter with a grin and a handshake...
Carter and Brezhnev will have their first business session on Saturday morning at the baroque U.S. embassy. For two hours they will make a survey of world problems. After lunch- and a nap for Brezhnev- they will talk together for 1 1/2 hrs. more. At this meeting they expect to settle any language disputes on SALT II and officially open discussion on SALT III, the next round of negotiations...
...SALT II agreement permits only one new missile system between now and 1985, and President Carter wanted to reach his decision before meeting Leonid Brezhnev next Saturday. Since the Soviets have already complained about the MX as a provocation, he wanted to announce his move with as little fanfare as possible. So Deputy Press Secretary Rex Grannum last week merely confirmed previous press reports that Carter had approved the MX. America's first new ICBM in a decade will be the biggest allowed by SALT. Weighing 190,000 Ibs., more than twice as much as Minuteman, it will carry...
...mountains he spoke out against alcohol abuse and immorality that threaten family life. The lament on alcoholism supported a theme that the regime is also pressing, but another of the Pope's moral concerns this day, abortion, put him in direct opposition to official Polish policy. The Pope's Saturday schedule was relaxed, with a midday visit to the Cistercian shrine at Mogila, and a poignant meeting with the sick and disabled at a Cracow basilica...
...mile distance of the Belmont Stakes. So it happened in 1969, when Majestic Prince, a handsome and bighearted chestnut, was unable to stave off the wearying effects of his hard campaign for the Crown and was beaten by Arts and Letters. Majestic Prince never raced again. But last Saturday his son Coastal came to the Belmont and avenged his father's defeat, dashing Spectacular Bid's Triple Crown dreams with a galvanic, come-from-behind run that took him to the wire a winner by 3¼ lengths...