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Please pass the word to Professor Frederic Cassidy to come to Baltimore for some choice regionalisms...
With that stunning announcement, Jimmy Carter capped a period of extraordinary diplomatic activity. Not for years has an Administration engaged itself on so many fronts of such complexity all at the same time. At the beginning of the week came word that Vance would meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva Dec. 21 to put the finishing touches on the long-stalled SALT II treaty to limit nuclear weapons. If all goes well-and White House officials maintained that the changed relations with Peking would not affect the SALT talks?Carter is expected to hold his first summit...
Another of Carter's major concerns was to assure Moscow that the agreement with mainland China was not meant to challenge or provoke the Soviet Union, even though the U.S.-Peking communique condemned "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. To counterbalance that possibility, the communique pointedly said that the new step was not taken for "transient, tactical or expedient reasons," diplomatic language implying that Carter's China action was not in any way directed against Moscow. Vance told TIME: "We will treat the Soviet Union and China equally and not play one off against the other...
...rolled easily down Interstate 83, around Baltimore on 695; and when the four vehicles reached Washington, there were motorcycle police waiting to escort everybody down Constitution Avenue and over to the Ellipse, where the tree was planted just across the street from the White House. Bill Ruback flashed the word to his office to call Mrs. Myers and tell her the spruce was in place. She cried again when the phone call came. Out her front window she could see the empty spot covered with fresh sod. "It looks," she said later, "like a new patch on an old pair...
...last name was Meir, but few Israelis ever thought of her as anything but Golda. To many people, her face was an appropriate symbol of Israel itself: strong, disarmingly homely, above all tough. It was a face that inspired love but also demanded respect-and the operative word was "demanded." Golda was of that generation of pioneers who built the Jewish state; she served as its Prime Minister through five years and one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still...