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...progress in Geneva had been heralded by early signals that the Soviets and the U.S. were eager to thaw the frosty legacy of the Moscow meeting. The week before Vance arrived in the Swiss city, chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke and his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir ("Iron Pants") Semyonov, moved closer to an agreement on a number of the so-called secondary issues (TIME, May 23). Then Vance and Gromyko deliberately launched their own talks on an upbeat note by signing an extension of a treaty to cooperate in space science and medicine and to exchange data on missions...
...heralded before, only to come to naught. Indeed, as he was about to depart for Moscow, a sour Gromyko cautioned that his discussions with Vance were "just a station along the way ... major and serious difficulties remain." Some of these difficulties will be attacked this week as Warnke and Semyonov resume their talks. The toughest issues will undoubtedly require higher-level bargaining; thus Vance and Gromyko plan to meet again, on a yet undetermined date...
...this atmosphere last week that Paul Warnke, the chief U.S. SALT negotiator, sat down with his opposite number from Moscow, Vladimir Semyonov, a veteran of the talks whose past bargaining-table obstinacy has gained him the nickname "Iron Pants...
...bound, and taken to a street where "a big crowd had assembled and where movie cameras and klieg lights were ready." Then they were dragged out of the cars amid the jeers and hoots of the crowd, and the entire episode was filmed. The other Russians - Third Secretary U.A. Semyonov and his interpreter, A. A. Kolosov - were picked up else where in Peking by police, handcuffed and taken to the Public Security Department, where "they were subjected to vi olence and threats of execution...
SALT. As Soviet Chief Negotiator Vladimir Semyonov arrived in Helsinki for the opening of the fifth round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, he exuded confidence. He declared that the Soviet delegation carried "clear-cut instructions to achieve concrete results," and predicted that the U.S. and Russia would soon reach a preliminary agreement on limiting anti-ballistic missiles. A ban on the defensive ABMs would make it easier to work out a balanced reduction in offensive strategic missiles. Meanwhile, Pravda seemed to be preparing its readers for a nuclear accommodation with the U.S. "Action is met by counteraction," the party...