Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrested last May for trying to buy secret information from a U.S. naval officer; in October they were sentenced to 50 years in prison for espionage. Even before the trial ended, negotiations for a swap began. President Carter directed National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to conduct the talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The discussions went on for months in the offices of both negotiators, occasionally in Brzezinski's house in McLean, Va., where his daughter and Dobrynin's granddaughter sometimes rode horses together...
...dissidents would soon be joined in the West by members of their immediate families. The Americans, however, failed to win the release of Anatoli Shcharansky, the leading Jewish dissident who was jailed for treason last summer. He was apparently too much of a symbol of resistance to the Soviet regime to be allowed to go free...
Minor differences keep delaying a U.S.-Soviet arms pact
...longest countdowns in diplomatic memory-and one of the most frustrating. For months the end of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks has seemed so imminent that officials and reporters have mounted a kind of SALT vigil. But a settlement keeps turning out to be just beyond reach. No sooner have negotiators resolved what earlier had been described as the last few issues than new points of dispute...
...Cabinet-level Special Coordination Committee, which sets tactics for the arms talks, met to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance instructions for what might have turned out to be his final SALT II bargaining round with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. But after conferring Wednesday, bringing to eight their meetings in April alone, the two senior diplomats were still unable to tie up the treaty's ever unraveling ends. As usual, each of last week's negotiating sessions yielded some progress, but not enough...