During the opening days of the Carter Administration, actions, proposals and ideas came with startling speed. Highlights:
EAST-WEST RELATIONS. The Administration seemed to be moving in two opposite directions in dealing with the Soviet Union (see THE WORLD).
The White House reported that the long-stalled talks with the Soviet Union on a second-stage agreement on limiting strategic arms arsenals will probably resume in March. Carter also reiterated a hope that he had expressed in his campaign that all nuclear weapons might eventually be eliminated. The notion was clearly utopian, but, for better or worse, it...