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- 1987 Jan 29 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Cyrus Roberts Vance, US Secretary of the Army, 1962-1963, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1964-1967, and US Secretary of State, 1977-1980, relating to the US arms control proposal offered to the USSR by Vance as US Secretary of State, and Paul Culliton Warnke, Director, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Chief US Arms Control Negotiator, Moscow, USSR, Mar 1977; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II), Geneva, Switzerland, 1977-1979; the increase in Soviet and Cuban influence in Ethiopia, 1977-1980; the Soviet Tupolev Tu-26 'Backfire-B' bomber and whether the aircraft constituted a strategic nuclear delivery system, [1978]; the official visit to the USA by Deng Xiaoping, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USA and the People's Republic of China, Jan 1979; the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II) on agreed limits on the numbers and testing of new types of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) by US President Carter and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the deferment by the US Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II), due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jan 1980.
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