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...tentative SALT pact was reached during two days of talks at the State Department. Vance will fly to Geneva Dec. 20 for a final two-day session with his opposite number, Andrei Gromyko. Barring hitches, the two men will prepare for a summit meeting between Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, probably in Washington during the week...
...anticipated January summit will not come a moment too soon for Carter. Last week, talking with nine newly elected Senators, he described SALT tersely as "the most important single foreign policy question" of his Administration. A SALT II failure, he warned, would be "disastrous." At the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis, Carter promised that SALT II would require the Soviets "to destroy several hundred of their existing missiles." Brezhnev also dwelt on the topic last week, calling for a pact "without further procrastination...
...displaying his independent streak again. At a Warsaw Pact summit in Moscow, he rebuffed Soviet demands for increased defense spending. Later, in Bucharest, he told a "workers' meeting" that he would not make "exaggerated expenditures" on arms. Ceauşescu added; that Rumania "will not surrender to anyone the right to involve the Rumanian, military in any action"-a clear message to Moscow that Bucharest intends to keep its forces out of Soviet control...
Ohira also said he sees little chance that Japan will meet the seven-per-cent economic growth rate for the current fiscal year, a goal set by the Fukuda government at the Bonn summit meeting of Western powers and Japan last July...
...main sticking point, as always, was "linkage"-the relationship between the pending Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and the pursuit of a broader peace that will, among other things, provide autonomy for the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the recent Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which condemned the Sadat peace initiative and the Camp David accords, the Egyptians are more determined than ever to prove to their Arab brethren that they are not selling out the cause by making a separate peace with the Israelis...