Khorosho,' Said Brezhnev

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The ink would hardly be dry before Brezhnev would head for Moscow and Carter for Washington. Carter planned a televised address to a joint session of Congress, exactly as Nixon had done after signing the SALT I treaty in Moscow. But there the parallel ended. For Carter, the selling of SALT to the Senate will be a much more difficult proposition than it was for Nixon. The Senate's hawks are organized and ready to fight. They believe they have the strength either to block ratification or to add such restrictive amendments that the agreement signed amid all the panoply in Vienna will be undone. If that happens, the Carter presidency will face its severest test.