Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks is only a ripple on the four-year tide of a presidential term. But Jimmy Carter seemed to be off to a promising start. From the cold-eyed cynics of the Washington press corps and the aloof observers of academe on to the "show me" proprietor of the Summit Hill bar in Hartford, Conn., the initial reaction to the Carter presidency was impressively upbeat...
...show of Henry Kissinger was gone, and U.S. foreign policy was once again a multi-ring spectacle. Vice President Walter Mondale was back from his successful mission of reassurance to Western Europe and Japan. Late in the spring, Jimmy Carter plans to fly to Europe to attend the summit conferences of NATO and the industrialized democracies. In the meantime, the new President was busy sending aides and emissaries off to the corners of the world on diplomatic forays...
Home in Humiliation. Meanwhile the King has regained his former standing with the major Arab countries. Scarcely two years ago, Arab leaders assembled for a summit meeting in Rabat and agreed that the Palestinians, rather than Hussein, should henceforth be responsible for the future of the West Bank and Gaza. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O., journeyed from Rabat to New York to be lionized by the U.N. General Assembly. Hussein went home in humiliation...
...talking about the first two Mondays in February, about over-priced beer in undernourished containers, about the closest thing to summit talks between Harvard, B.C., B.U. and Northeastern. We're talking about last night at a wild Boston Garden, about a Green Line that turned people into sardines, about the 25th rendition of the Beanpot hockey tournament. Mostly, though, we're talking about BEANS...
...matter in the U.S. Soviet dialogue is a new agreement on strategic arms, for the 1972 SALT I limit on missile launchers will expire in October. For nearly five years, negotiators have been seeking some broader formula for a long-term ceiling on strategic weapons. At the Brezhnev-Ford summit at Vladivostok in November 1974, the two leaders agreed that a SALT II accord should limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles-including missiles and bombers. A final draft of the SALT II treaty seemed imminent, but complications arose. Many American advocates of arms control pointed...