World: THE START OF SALT

We must make a determined effort not only to limit the buildup of strategic arms, but to reverse it.

—Richard Nixon

A positive outcome of the talks would undoubtedly help improve Soviet-American relations and preserve and strengthen the peace. —Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny

WITH suitable benedictions from their leaders and the best wishes of peaceable men everywhere, U.S. and Russian negotiators this week meet in Helsinki. They are coming to the Finnish capital to start talks on the most vital-and sensitive disarmament issue ever negotiated between the two sides. The object of the Strategic...

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