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AMID the baroque splendors of Vienna's Belvedere Palace, U.S. and Soviet negotiators this week will open the long-awaited Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). They are possibly the most vital negotiations between the two superpowers since Yalta; London's Institute for Strategic Studies last week called them "the most important arms conference in history." At their initial get-together, the delegates will move at a leisurely pace that seems entirely appropriate to a conference that may well continue for several years. In rooms graced by red marble columns and canvases of voluptuous nudes, they will exchange formal...
...crazy, bullish stock market tips-some of which turn out to be crazy like a fox. Reformed revolutionaries, Chambers observes wryly, when they can learn to stifle their scruples, often do well in finance. He is a notable coiner of cranky but sharp-eyed political epigrams: "The illusion of Yalta [1945]: that the Communists yearned for peace if only we'd be kind to them. The illusion of Geneva [1955]: that the Communists are bent on world war unless we are kind to them...
...German retreat before the onrushing Red Army. The U.S. State Department has said that it was in response to Stalin's request for "increased aerial support." British Historian David Irving, maintains, however, that the attack was a purely political act, designed "to impress the Soviet delegation" after the Yalta talks on postwar political problems. And many Germans still feel the bombing was vengeance for the destruction of Coventry, England...
...House announced, Nixon will begin an approximately eleven-day trip around the world that will take him to five Asian countries and the Eastern European state of Rumania -marking the first time that a U.S. President has visited a Communist country since F.D.R. conferred with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta...
...time of the German in vasion, the Czechoslovaks waged an underground war against the occupiers. In one of their retaliation moves, the Germans wiped out the entire village of Lidice. After Germany's defeat, Benes took his regime to Prague and started anew. He faced tremendous obstacles. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after the war. As a result, when General George Patton's tanks prepared to liberate Prague in the war's closing days, orders came from Allied headquarters to halt. The Russians...