Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Publicly, at least, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev took the same position. He sent Carter a message acknowledging, in the U.S. President's words, "that the proper relationship between sovereign nations is to have full diplomatic relations." The Soviets objected to the joint Chinese-American communique opposing "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord...
...year's end Carter came close to achieving a triple crown in foreign policy: he established normal relations with mainland China and seemed to have a breakthrough on strategic arms limitations with the Soviet Union. But he failed to get Egypt and Israel to sign a peace pact, even though he had, almost singlehanded, brought them closer to peace at the Camp David summit than they had been in 30 years. His achievements were also somewhat diminished by the U.S. inability to help bring calm to Iran...
...political philosophy. He is not inspirational by nature, and is not likely ever to be a charismatic commander. This failing could make him vulnerable to a challenge. Much will depend on how he handles two issues that loom in 1979: ratification of SALT II by a Senate suspicious of Soviet motives and of Carter's seeming willingness to accommodate Moscow; and reducing inflation, on which he is steering a conservative course that will be attacked by the liberals. Both battles promise to be bruising, and their outcome will largely determine whether the new beginning that Jimmy Carter made...
...question was one that reporters asked at just about every meeting between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: How far apart were the two diplomats in their seemingly endless effort to work out a second-stage SALT treaty? In Geneva last week Gromyko answered by holding his hands about a foot apart...
...week's end, it was uncertain whether the remaining differences would delay the first summit between Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. It was tentatively being planned for Washington in mid-January, just a fortnight before the visit of China's Teng Hsiao-p'ing. The President, in fact, has wanted to see Brezhnev for a year, but the Russians have refused to come until SALT II was ready for signing...