Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again rehearsing that old standby, The Star-Spangled Banner, and those familiar little red-white-and-blue flags were once again being pulled out for street decorations. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were on their way for this week's meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev-the third summit in as many years. Yet the concept of détente has lost some of its earlier magic. Both sides will have to work hard to show that it is not only alive but thriving...
...Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States and hi our Soviet land...
Perfervid Atmosphere. Despite Nixon's enhanced negotiating position and Brezhnev's hopeful prediction, the third Nixon-Brezhnev summit is likely to be the most difficult. Whatever the difficulties, some high U.S. officials believe that détente is imperative. Said one: "If détente comes apart, it could mean a ten-year hiatus." Arms control is the most profound issue facing the two leaders. Though détente enjoyed nearly universal approval a year ago, it is coming under increasing attack in the U.S. and other Western countries from an oddly mixed but powerful alliance of liberals and conservatives...
...both sides have a first-strike capability, the world is a tinderbox." But Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, advised his colleagues to give President Nixon "running room" and bargaining chips at the arms limitation talks. SALT will be a major item at the summit conference when the President visits Russia at the end of the month. After a 2½-hr. secret debate, the Senate voted 49 to 37 in favor of the missile improvements, which were earlier approved by the House...
...relations with the U.S. during the stormy years. The entourage will head for home, stopping overnight in the Azores on Tuesday and returning to Washington Wednesday. The President will have only six days to rest up and prepare for his June 25 departure for Moscow and the week of summit meetings with Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev...