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Earlier, Brezhnev had announced that Moscow was prepared to agree to suspend "peaceful" nuclear tests as part of a total nuclear-test ban. And last week came other small signs that the tensions that had crept into U.S.-Soviet relations early in Carter's Administration were easing: in Washington, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told a TV interviewer that "we are rather close" to a new agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. When might the agreement be reached? Cautioning that it was impossible to predict "with precision" Dobrynin said he would guess "by the end of this year...
...surprise of the Brezhnev speech, however, was the Soviet leader's announcement that Moscow was now prepared to suspend its program of "peaceful" nuclear explosions, thereby paving the way for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban agreement covering both military and peaceful explosions. Declared Brezhnev: "We trust that this important step on the part of the U.S.S.R. is properly appreciated by our partners at the negotiations...
...Yale University Board of Trustees announced last Friday that it will suspend the hiring of faculty, staff and administration personnel to cut back spending and reduce the budget base until the 1979-80 school year...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis yesterday suggested he would sign into law a bill that would suspend Sunday closing laws for the four Sundays between Thanksgiving and Christmas...
City Councilor Saundra Graham said yesterday the city manager should investigate the situation and suspend without pay or fire the persons involved. The police "are sitting on a keg of dynamite that will explode if nothing is done to ease the tensions of Blacks and Italians," Graham added...