Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to the feverish activity in Geneva, summit preparations went on almost serenely in Vienna, where the treaty is to be signed at 1 p.m. in the Redoutensaal, a gold-and-white ballroom in the sprawling Hofburg, the Habsburg dynasty's Imperial Palace. Vienna officials were taking the summit preparations very much in stride. The Redoutensaal was occupied last week by negotiators at the interminable M.B.F.R. talks on troop reductions in Central Europe. Not until this week could workmen begin erecting bleacher seats for the 1,200 journalists expected to witness the SALT II signing. That the agreement...
...Moscow and Washington, where Brezhnev and Carter were being prepped by their staffs for the summit, the biggest uncertainty was the health of the ailing Soviet party chief (see ESSAY). Brezhnev seemed in good shape two weeks ago during his visit to Budapest, where he declared: "We shall go to Vienna fully prepared for an active and constructive dialogue." In Moscow, Andrei Kirilenko, who as the party's Central Committee Secretary-General is No. 2 to Brezhnev, told U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon that both countries expected "a great deal" of the summit and expressed the hope that both would...
...surprises are expected at Vienna. Said a U.S. official: "The Soviets certainly don't want any." The summit's chief value will be that Carter and Brezhnev have finally got together and demonstrated that they consider détente to be very much alive. "We will urge greater cooperation between us and emphasize that détente is a two-way street, as we always have," said a senior Administration official, "but realistically, we cannot expect much more to be accomplished...
Harry Truman never had this kind of summit opportunity, but he set the context for it. One night early in his presidency, while sitting in the Oval Office, he sadly abandoned his hope that the Soviet Union would be an ally in peace as in war. Glancing up from his desk, he told his counsel, Clark Clifford, that Stalin would have to be confronted in Greece and Turkey, and so the Truman Doctrine was launched. But even through the Berlin airlift and the Korean War, Truman searched for contacts with the Soviet Union, whether ballet dancers or scientists. Eisenhower continued...
...budgeted, systematic labor are normal for him, and he often brings home stacks of buff-colored dossiers to read until two or three in the morning. Even so, Schmidt is what Germans call a "Morgenmuffel," one who hates to get up in the morning. At the London economic summit in 1977, not suspecting that it might further damage their jersonal rapport, Carter invited him to a 7 a.m. breakfast; Schmidt was appalled...