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Measured by the duration of the bargaining-it began in 1963-the embassy treaty was far tougher to negotiate than the wheat deal, or the Pepsi-Cola franchise or, for that matter, even SALT I and the nuclear test-ban treaty. It took six years merely to agree on the embassy sites. Then there was another four-year deadlock over the Americans' demand that they be allowed to "import" workers from the U.S. or some Western European country to add the plumbing, wiring and interior finishing to the structure, which would be built by the Russians. Détente...
...about the massing of Soviet military might on China's northern border, but added: "We Chinese are not afraid of atom bombs. We are prepared. The great majority of our big and medium cities now have underground tunnels." Chou claimed the Russians "want to lasso us" into a test-ban conference of nuclear powers only, while China hopes for a meeting of "all the countries of the world" for "complete prohibition" of nuclear weapons...
...critical step in Ellsberg's career came in 1964, when he went to the Pentagon as a special assistant to lohn McNaughton, then Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He landed the job because of McNaughton's role in nuclear issues, such as the test-ban treaty. As a former professor put it: "Ellsberg just got drawn into Viet Nam, the same way McNaughton did, the same way all of us did." He became so drawn in that he seriously wanted to re-enter the Marine Corps, in which he had done a stint as an officer...
...budget, but Provost Jerome B. Wiesner is far from pleased. He thinks M.I.T. is too much in thrall to military-industrial interests -and time after time he has snapped at the hands that feed his university. As President Kennedy's science adviser, he fought for the nuclear test-ban treaty, opposed manned lunar exploration and launched one of the first big probes of dangerous pesticides. A critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, he was a major organizer of opposition to the ABM in 1969. Last week M.I.T. chose Wiesner, 55, to become its new president...
...ideological cast of the Senate to the liberal side. They were returned in the Goldwater debacle of 1964, and for twelve years they have, in the main, cast their votes for Medicare, civil rights, voting rights, federal aid to education, increased minimum wages, the war on poverty, the nuclear test-ban treaty, the Peace Corps, federal rent subsidies, open housing. They provided the votes that enabled Lyndon Johnson to say, with less hyperbole than he regularly employed, that the Congress of 1964 "met more national needs . . . than any other session of this century or the last...