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...able to get their goods around the central area promptly. I would commend a congestion charge for all large cities whose residents would like to be able to breathe clean air. Malcolm Dymott Uxbridge, England Re your selection of Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni: Although I work in Vienna, I am Roman, and not very young. I have never seen Rome in as poor condition as it is under Veltroni's administration. He apparently is a kind man who believes that to manage a city, it is sufficient to visit old ladies and the disabled. Piero Risoluti Vienna You included...
...months later the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. An angry Sunday-school teacher is dangerous. Carter thrashed about in his despair, pulling the U.S. out of the Moscow Olympics, embargoing the sale of American grain to the Soviets, and losing the nation's confidence in his Vienna nuclear arms deal. It died in Congress...
John Kennedy probably best described the realizations that come from such a moment. He was back home in Palm Beach, Fla., resting after the 1961 summit in Vienna, a daiquiri in hand, Frank Sinatra records filling the night air. He remembered Nikita Khrushchev as seeming, well, so different when the two first sat down alone. "I looked him over pretty good," Kennedy chortled. He became fascinated with his adversary's hands. They were always thumping, fiddling. They were blunt, ungraceful hands, Kennedy recalled, but strong, so quick. "You're an old country, we're a young country," blurted Khrushchev. "Look...
...After Vienna, Kennedy did win a little help from the Soviets in dampening the fight in Laos, but there were no agreements on nuclear-weapons testing or on Berlin. The summit, it soon developed, was a prelude to crisis. Khrushchev sized up the young President and decided Kennedy could be challenged. The Berlin Wall followed. The Cuban missile crisis followed. Kennedy, the romantic, came away from the meeting with the conviction that the two most important ingredients in these confrontations were strength--and strength...
...warheads. But surprises are not welcome in the programmed society of the U.S.S.R. Brezhnev, sicker than ever, angrily turned down the idea. It took Carter two years more to get back to Ford's agreement. Before he rushed off to tell the world of his SALT II achievement in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, he kissed Brezhnev on both cheeks, the way they do down in Georgia--Soviet Georgia--a kiss seen round the world...