Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon came home from the limited accomplishments of the Moscow summit last week, he found little comfort in the news that awaited...
When the final communiqué was written and the last toast-so carefully worded-was delivered, the third summit meeting between President Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev came to a quiet close last week. It had lived up to its advertised and modest expectations, and yet the result, despite the cautious advance billing, was something of a letdown. The dialogue had continued, the spirit of detente was nudged ahead by some useful if minor pledges of cooperation in scientific and cultural fields. What was worrisome about Summit III-and deeply disturbing about the future-was what had been...
While no fireworks were expected during the summit itself, the third Nixon-Brezhnev meeting seemed to be a landmark of another kind. It was the first of the quiet summits, the start of dull, workaday meetings that offered the possibility that the nuclear-arms competition some day might be ended...
Jackson certainly will not be able to stop the momentum for détente, but he has raised enough obstacles to upset the White House and outrage the Kremlin. The Senator dismissed the Moscow summit as being more "cosmetic" than substantial and suggested that the President would have been wiser to stay home and tend to Watergate. Last week he also tangled bitterly with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, charging that after the SALT I arms limitation agreement in 1972, Kissinger made secret concessions to the Russians-an accusation that the Secretary fervently denied. Then, hoping to steal some...
...reddest of red carpets that the French rolled out last week for a state visit by Iran's Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi and his Empress Farah. The entire French Cabinet lined up at Orly Airport to welcome the Shah. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing skipped the NATO summit in Brussels to welcome the Iranian leader, who was feted at Versailles' Hall of Mirrors with fireworks and dances. At week's end the wooing appeared well worth the effort: Iran agreed to purchase $5 billion in industrial equipment and technology from France in the next decade...