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Nixon and Brezhnev settled down to the hard talks on arms limitations in an unsettling locale for the U.S. President-Yalta, the Black Sea site of the Big Three conference in 1945. Nixon and other Republicans had long charged that Franklin Roosevelt gave away postwar Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union during those talks. Hoping that Nixon would agree to meeting in the Livadiya Palace where F.D.R. had stayed, the Russians had refurbished the old summer residence of the czars. But when the White House objected, the meetings were moved to Brezhnev's handsome dacha, which was nearby...
...sure appears to make a big difference to some people. A group of men in a Pinto were run off a single lane detour road into soft sand this week when they steamed right past a long line of cars being held by a flagwoman at a construction site in New Hampshire. For some reason, they didn't believe the young woman as she tried to tell them that the traffic on the one-mile detour was coming the other way at the moment...
...will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States and hi our Soviet land...
...treaty to limit anti-ballistic missile defenses to only one site in each country, plus a ban* on underground testing of large atomic weapons. The ban would be a follow-up to the 1963 treaty between the two countries that prohibited all explosions in the atmosphere, in space and under the seas. Since underground tests below 4.5 or 5 on the Richter Scale cannot be detected by the other side, the agreement bans only tests of relatively big devices, making it almost meaningless as a restraining force in the arms race, in the view of most experts...
...major accomplishment of SALT I was its ban on widespread installation of anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) systems. Under the terms of the treaty, the U.S. and the Soviets were allowed to erect anti-nuclear-rocket defenses at only two sites-one to protect each country's capital, the other to shield an intercontinental-ballistic-missile (ICBM) launching site. So far, each nation has installed ABMs at only one site. Moscow has been ringed by the Galosh ABMs, while the U.S. has protected its ICBM launchers at Grand Forks...