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June 18, 1979: U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance at background, center, looks on as U.S. President Jimmy Carter, left, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, right, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II Treaty in Vienna, Austria. [AP/Wide World Photo]
![June 18, 1979: U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance at background, center, looks on as U.S. President Jimmy Carter, left, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, right, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II Treaty in Vienna, Austria. [AP/Wide World Photo]](http://www.state.gov/cms_images/28vance_salt_600.jpg)
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