Word: sideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the U.S. Embassy's cramped and dreary conference room, the leaders arranged themselves and their aides at either side of a gleaming 25-ft. table. Brezhnev brought with him nine aides, including Chernenko, Gromyko, Ogarkov and Ustinov; Carter was accompanied by the same number, including Brown, Brzezinski and Vance. As guest, Brezhnev led off. He put on his rimless spectacles and stolidly read aloud from his sheaf of prepared remarks. He was followed by Carter, who talked from several pages of notes handwritten on yellow legal paper. Among them was a sentence he had noted on hearing Brezhnev utter...
...Soviet Jews. Next the two leaders were supposed to move on to the Soviet embassy for their fifth and last session of formal talks, again focusing on trade. From the Soviet embassy, they were to drive separately to the Redoutensaal for the summit's climactic moment. There, seated side by side, Brezhnev and Carter were to sign the SALT II agreement. First Brezhnev was to write his name on Russian and English copies of the treaty. His copies would be contained in a red binder, Carter's in a blue binder. Then it would be Carter's turn to sign...
...looming shadow of energy, in short, all the other problems are bound to be given short shrift. This time, as one Administration official put it, "all the delegates will be on one side of the table -and the problem of energy will be on the other side...
...dustup had its serious side: the increasingly acerbic Carter-Kennedy rivalry is coloring important national issues. Last week's example was the key question of how the nation can extend adequate health care to every American at something resembling an affordable cost...
...reason for the stir. The cause was Pierre Salinger, the former J.F.K. press secretary and current TV man about Europe. On his 54th birthday an Austrian paper had sent a cake and champagne over to "Plucky," who was savoring a Havana cigar and shouting greetings to friends. At his side, almost unnoticed, was Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary...