Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides, including Vance, who all along had questioned the wisdom of the expedition, even though Vance defended it in public. During last year's presidential campaign, Carter said he would not travel abroad in his first year in office. Yet he had already attended the London summit in May, and here he was preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland and Belgium) with little hope of emerging with a common theme or coherent message. The inclusion of Brazil and Iran ruled out an overall emphasis on human rights...
...such is life in the Ivies, where unpredictability is a virtue and the Harvard-Yale game is the summit...
...dust-covered Viking 2 lander; and a photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot in the current album is a "down the hole" look into the summit caldera, or crater, of Mars' Olympus Mons, a volcano that dwarfs the earth's mightiest peak, Mount Everest. Olympus Mons measures 600 kilometers (375 miles)-the width of the state of New Mexico-across its base and towers to 27.4 kilometers (90,000 ft.)-three times the height...
...season, Benninger went from battling it out in the trenches for the Crimson as an offensive guard to the cerebral summit of diagraming plays on the blackboard at Dillon Field House. Currently a second semester senior, Benninger was ineligible to play this season and instead became freshman coach Loyal Park's offensive tactician...
...Soviets have been insisting that SALT II follow the guidelines approved by Moscow's Leonid Brezhnev and President Gerald Ford at their 1974 summit in Vladivostok. These allow each side 2,400 strategic missile launchers, of which 1,320 can be armed with MIRVs-multiple, independently targetable warheads. As clear as these guidelines may have seemed originally, they soon became mired in controversy. The U.S., for instance, has been insisting that the ceilings cover the U.S.S.R.'s new Backfire bomber; the Soviets reject this. In turn, Moscow argues that U.S. aircraft firing cruise missiles-relatively cheap, accurate subsonic...