Word: summits
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...seems that SALT II will probably follow the general formula approved at the November 1974 summit in Vladivostok-just as Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev has been insisting it must. While the relatively high ceilings (2,400 strategic launchers for each side) permitted by the Vladivostok guidelines may be lowered a bit in SALT II's final draft, the very substantial slashes in the U.S. and Soviet arsenals sought by President Jimmy Carter will have to await SALT...
...level off exports at 2.5 million per year." But U.S. manufacturers were pressing for a rollback to no more than 1.3 million Japanese sets. Later, Strauss met in Washington with Japan's Vice Minister of Trade, Minoru Masuda; they continued their talks during the early May economic summit in London. Last week Strauss and the Japanese ambassador signed an understanding that obliges Japan for the next three years to cut its color TV exports to the U.S. to just 41% of the 1976 level-1.75 million sets a year...
...mind that he did all those things for the benefit of staff members and so forth, and that he didn't have any criminal intent." Asked if he had discussed the Nixon affair during his trip to London, the President said he had. Several of the summit participants had raised the matter and deplored the "resurrection of Watergate." Would Carter watch the second Nixon interview? No, said the President. "I've got other things...
Carter's meeting with Assad last week was euphoric. Unlike Hussein and Sadat, the Syrian President had turned down Carter's invitation to make a political hadj to Washington. So Carter took a day off from the London summit to confer with Assad in Geneva. The President effusively described the Syrian as "great," "brilliant" and one of his "favorite leaders"-even though the two were meeting for the first time...
...these were the right sounds to make, Robert Triffin, a board member who was a chief architect of the West's postwar monetary system, said that after reading the final communique, "in the whole list I don't see a single concrete agreement." His point: the seven summiteers had expressed good intentions rather than committing themselves to specific policies. Almost to a man, Triffin and his board colleagues were concerned about a rising global trend toward protectionism, which could inhibit the needed expansion of world trade, and a failure to check inflation, which is now running...