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Huntington said that while the Soviets had "military equivalence" with the U.S., they were far from being "global equals" with the U.S. in international affairs in terms of technology, political and diplomatic influence, and economic progress. The "illusion" of such general parity which has come to dominate Soviet-American relations in world affairs may someday soon lead to Russian military intervention in some regional conflict and subsequent American retaliation, he added...
...brought with him a message from President Carter to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev expressing concern about the dissidents' trials. He also had a symbolic appointment to meet Avital Shcharansky, to emphasize American sympathy for her husband, Anatoli Shcharansky. But Vance vowed as before not to link the new Soviet-American controversy with the arms negotiations. When several Senators publicly urged him to postpone his trip, an unusually tense Vance replied: "The imperatives to go to Geneva now are that we are dealing with negotiations that affect the national security of our nation and the well-being of the world...
DIED. Mstislav Keldysh, 67, prominent Russian mathematician who helped shape his country's space program; in Moscow. His own research centered on rocketry and spacecraft, but as chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1961-75, Keldysh oversaw a national network of scientific projects and organizations. His working knowledge of English helped him maintain contacts with many Western scientists, and he professed a desire for Soviet-American cooperation in space research...
...circumlocutory sally. Every one of the 75 Soviet and American officials present-especially Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance-understood all too well the reference to Vance's disastrous March 1977 visit, which marked a major setback for the new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) and for Soviet-American relations in general. Vance was now back, 13 months later, intending to avoid a repeat performance. As Vance told Gromyko on the eve of the first of their three scheduled days of talks, "complex and difficult problems remain" on the road to SALT II. There are, in fact, three...
Marshall Shulman, 62. Sporting an old-fashioned green eyeshade and cultivating the air of an absent-minded professor baffled by governmental bureaucracy, the longtime director of Columbia University's Russian Institute has become Vance's closest adviser and a key influence on Soviet-American policy. He and Vance often lunch on sandwiches in the Secretary's private hideaway office. At first only a part-time consultant who commuted between Washington and his Columbia professorship, Shulman was persuaded to join Vance full time after the Administration's initial overtures to the Soviet Union on SALT were abruptly...