Endgame : Inside story of SALT II (Record no. 160259)

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Classification number 327.11 Tal
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Personal name Talbott, Strobe
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Title Endgame : Inside story of SALT II
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Kalyani Pub.
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1979
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Extent 319p.
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Summary, etc. Endgame is the inside story of the climactic phase of the strategic arms limitation talks, the suspenseful and secrecy-shrouded negotiations that produced the most important and certainly the most controversial diplo matic agreement of our era. Strobe Talbott, diplomatic correspondent of Time magazine, takes us behind the headlines of the past two and a half years to explain what the SALT II is, how it came about, what is at stake in this extraordinary attempt by the world's super powers to limit their arsenals for Armageddon.<br/><br/>Talbott concentrates on the fast-paced, very human story of how the leaders of two nations tried to reconcile their political responsibilities with an effort to attain international security and peace. Here is Jimmy Carter's idealistic but disastrous opening move on the SALT chessboard shortly after his inauguration; Cyrus (the Gray) Vance's attempts to counteract the influence of the combative Zbigniew Brzezinski; the enigmatic De fense Secretary and supreme technocrat Harold Brown maneuvering around dovish chief negotiator Paul Warnke and hawkish, stubborn Stansfield Turner of the CIA; and the initially mistrusted veteran Soviet envoy Anatoly Dobrynin who (with Vance's subtle help) ultimately established himself as the negotiations indis pensable Russian. The major and minor figures in this complex and compelling drama play out their roles in scenes normally closed to public viewing-in the un derground "Situation Room" of the White House, the heavily guarded, lead-lined, bug-proof "vault" deep inside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, in Vance's hide away study atop the State Department in Foggy Bottom and at the negotiating tables in the Kremlin and by the shores of Lake Geneva.<br/><br/>The breakdowns and the breakthroughs, the attempts at intimidation and reconciliation, corridor gossip and formal negotiations are all here in this remarkable synthesis of journalism and history.<br/>Endgame lifts the veils of secrecy and untangles the diplomatic jargon to tell a story rich in anecdote and insight. It is a lucid, thoroughly comprehensible book for anyone who wants to follow, and participate in, the number one foreign policy debate of the year.<br/><br/>STROBE TALBOTT has followed the strategic arms limita tion talks closely since 1974. He travelled to Moscow and Geneva first with Henry Kissinger, more recently with Cyrus Vance, and in June of this year followed Jimmy Carter to Vienna to cover the final signing of the treaty. Talbott has visited and written extensively about Russia, China, the Middle East, Cuba and Iran, and before assuming his current assignment was a foreign affairs columnist for the international editions of Time Born in 1945, he was educated at Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford, where as a Rhodes Scholar he studied Russian language and literature. He translated and edited the oral memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Re members (1970) and Khrushchev Remembers The Last Testament (1974) Talbott lives with his wife and son in Washington, DC.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United States foreign relations - Soviet Union
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