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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking order at the talks was determined by the toss of a coin-an American quarter. The Soviets called tails and won the right to speak first. The U.S. became the home team and held the first session in its embassy; the second, two days later, took place in the Soviet embassy. The sessions were marked by an encouraging absence of polemics and posturing. Each side seemed earnest and genuinely eager to get down to the essentials of the difficult and long bargaining that was bound to precede an arms agreement. Unlike most international conferences that meet amid splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SMILES AND SUSPICION AT SALT | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

According to present plans, the two sides will spend another week or so testing intentions in Helsinki before each team goes home for a thorough appraisal of the outlook for possible agreement. If it is bright enough-and other outside factors do not intrude-the two sides intend to reconvene in January, probably in Vienna or Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SMILES AND SUSPICION AT SALT | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...year, but for the past three years it has shot up by 8.9%. The U.S. outlay has jumped from an average annual rise of 7.7% to 12%. Last year the U.S. spent $79.6 billion for military purposes, followed by the Soviet Union with $39.8 billion. Together the two countries account for some 70% of the world's military spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament: The Cost | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...reminder of Japan's defeat in World War II. Conquered by the U.S. in the last bloody battles of the war, it remained an American-occupied area even after Japan regained its sovereignty. Last week victor and vanquished moved to restore the island to its old owner. After two days of talks in Washington, President Nixon and Premier Eisaku Sato agreed to a timetable for the long-promised return to Japanese control of the Ryukyu chain, of which Okinawa is the largest island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Agreement on Okinawa | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...90th anniversary of his birth next Dec. 21. Major articles in Pravda and Izvestia are in preparation, together with a four-volume edition of his works. Posters and a statue are also being made ready for the event. As if to confirm the Chronicle's prediction, two pictures of Stalin last week appeared in a photo exhibit of Soviet history in Moscow. Since the Kremlin's attitude toward Stalin often has been a barometer of the government's willingness to repress dissenters, rehabilitation of the defamed dictator would portend an even bleaker era for the readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Notes from the Underground | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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