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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement appears dim, the two leaders may at least achieve that "conceptual breakthrough" Kissinger sought earlier. This would be an agreement on principles, a compromise that would maintain U.S. technical superiority and Soviet numerical superiority, that could then be worked out in detail by the bureaucrats. Additionally, the Moscow summit will undoubtedly produce several lesser accords, and every day will probably see one much-photographed session at which the two leaders will jointly affix their signatures to some document. "A signing a day keeps Rodino at bay," quips one White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: The Third Summit: A Time of Testing | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...WATERGATE AND THE SUMMIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Harriman: A Veteran's View | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Beaming exultantly, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev concluded their first summit meeting two years ago by signing a treaty that was to be a first step toward limiting the development and deployment of strategic arms. The second step has been much more difficult. SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) is the thorniest topic Nixon and Brezhnev confront. Their ability to agree on it will determine whether the U.S. and Russia will discontinue the costly and potentially dangerous search for nuclear advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Summit's Deadly Stakes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...need, we will return." With that a parade of armored personnel carriers, Jeeps and Centurion tanks headed down the hill, leaving behind only smashed bunkers, broken cartridge boxes and garbage. The last tank to leave was numbered 141. In October it had been the first to reach the summit of the hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israeli Exit | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...that atmosphere temporarily returned. Caught in a political crisis and under orders from President Giovanni Leone to resolve it rather than resign, representatives of the parties in Premier Mariano Rumor's ruling center-left coalition gathered in the Villa Madama's splendid isolation for a two-day summit. Medicis and Borgias would have enjoyed the infighting and cross-dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Not-So Dolce Vita | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

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