Word: summits
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...SALT treaty will lessen the danger of nucleIar destruction, while safeguarding our military security in a more stable, predictable and peaceful world." The treaty will be signed by Carter and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev when they meet in Vienna, June 15 through 18, for their first summit conference...
...Soviet pressures build as SALT and a summit near...
...Vance and Dobrynin were expected to settle the last issue this week. It was a minor loophole in the proposed freeze on the number of warheads permitted on each missile. Vance and Dobrynin then were expected to plunge immediately into negotiating the time and place for the Carter-Brezhnev summit-probably in June at a neutral capital in Europe, such as Geneva, Stockholm or Vienna...
...there is little possibility that a summit can achieve much beyond the formal signing of SALT II. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "Brezhnev could attend a couple of dinners and read a paper or two, but he is in no shape to engage in real give-and-take with Carter. It will be a pro forma summit, and it would be useless to expect anything more." Though signing a SALT agreement would be very important, Carter is disappointed at the lack of prospects for going further. Said a top White House adviser: "The President really wanted...
Japan's political leaders are eager to defuse the trade issue before the economic summit meeting of the heads of the major industrial nations begins in Tokyo on June 28. But as matters stand, the session is likely to be marred by a barrage of criticism against Japan by both Americans and Europeans, who are openly threatening to take strong retaliatory steps against Japan by autumn...