The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June 16, 1979-PageS5 Carter, Brezhnev begin SALT II talks From APand UPI VIENNA, Austria - In the splendor of a Hapsburg palace, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and President Carter met for the first time yesterday and held talks as a warmup to their historic summit meeting. An elevator lifted 72-year-old Soviet President Brezhnev to their ceremonial call on Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, president of Austria. Carter walked up the steep staircase and told reporters their 20-minute exchange over orange juice, biscuits, and tea was "a good beginning." Brezhnev, whose health has been a question-mark, appeared somewhat ill at ease, shuffling a bit. BUT HE alertly whirled around to grasp the president's hand when photographers shouted for handshakes. He wore a row of medals on his dark blue suit and a hearing aid behind his left ear. Both men smiled. The two met first in a gilded an- teroom and then insthe bedroom of 18th- century Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. The room - where the em- press died - was also the spot where President John Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev started their 1961 summit. Austrian officials said Carter and Brezhnev sat in the same silk-brocade chairs used by Kennedy and Krushchev 18 years ago. U.S. OFFICIALS said Carter told Brezhnev it would have been good if their first meeting had been earlier in his term, now 2 years old. Brezhnev agreed and said they should not wait so long to hold their next round. "I don't think it's possible to draw any conclusions from this meeting," said a U.S. official, who described it as simply an exchange of pleasantries. On leaving the palace, Carter was cheered by a buoyant crowd of 1,000 Austrians shouting,"Jimmy! Jimmy!" The blue-suited and bemedaled Brezhnev had left the Hofburg five minutes earlier, but reporters were kept away as he stepped into the car. CARTER AND Brezhnev had never met before. Bruno Kreisky, the Austrian chancellor, said afterward, "It went well, under the circumstan- ces." The two leaders, whose formal talks open Saturday, ended the day by sharing a box at a first-night perfor- mance of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" at the city's famed opera house, joined by Carter's wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy. The 11-year-old Amy bounded up the golden staircase of the opera house ahead of her parents to take a seat in the central box, where the Carters and Brezhnev viewed the opera together. The crowd applauded when Carter entered the box. The applause grew when Brezhnev and Kirchschlaeger came in together, and became still louder when Brezhnev and Carter joined in the applause. THE CARTER family and Brezhnev left at the intermission between the second and third acts, apparently to give the leaders a chance to rest before formal discussions began Saturday. Brezhnev, 72, arrived in the Austrian capital yesterday morning amid tight security. The ailing Soviet leader walked unassisted down the stair ramp from his plane, but kept a firm grip on the hand rail. His face appeared puffy and he favored his left leg as he reviewed an honor guard. BREZHNEV HAS been reported recently to be in better health than he has been for some time. In contrast, the 54-year-old American president began his day by jogging 16 laps around the U.S. ambassador's residence. Carter arrived Thursday night and spent much of yesterday relaxing with his family. Full summit negotiations begin tomorrow with two meetings between the leaders andttwo more on Sunday. The signing of the treaty limiting strategic weapons is scheduled for Monday. The treaty becomes effective only af- ter approval by the Supreme Soviet and the U.S. Senate. Carter faces a tough selling job in winning the necessary two-thirds ratification from a skeptical Senate. The treaty imposes the first numerical limits on the strategic ar; senals of the two superpowers. The SALT I treaty signed in 1972 froze existing arsenals for five years. Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met separately for an hour to discuss the agenda and specifics of the next two days of talks. Terms to know as the SALT II talks progress VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Here is a glossary of terms that will appear often over the next few days as President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev meet here before signing SALT II on Monday. SALT II - A second-phase strategic arms limitation agreement that limist the numbers of strategic weapons the two superpowers may aim at each other through 1985. It is a follow-up to SALT I, a pact curbing anti-ballistic missile systems that was signed in Moscow in 1972 by Brezhnev and then- President Richard Nixon. SNDVs - Strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, which are long-range missiles and heavy bombers, including those modified to launch cruise missiles. ICBMs - Intercontinental ballistic missiles, rocket weapons fired from land bases over ranges generally around 6,300 miles at speeds of thousands of miles an hour. SLBMs - Submarine-launched ballistic missiles fired from submerged submarines over ranges varying in the thousands of miles. ASBMs Air-to-surface ballistic missiles that would be fired from planes over long ranges. Cruise missiles - Weapons similar to small, pilotless planes, powered by air- breathing jet engines. They could be launched from airplanes such as B-52 bombers or from ships, submarines or ground bases. They could carry nuclear warheads at about 500 miles an hour over a range of about 1,550 miles. MIRVs - Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, clusters of warheads that can be aimed separately at targets far apart. Yield - The explosive force released by nuclear weapons. Expressed in megatons equivalent to millions of tons of TNT and kilotons equivalent to thousands of tons of TNT. Backfire - A new Soviet two-engine, swing-wing bomber that is not included in the SALT treaty despite U.S. concern that it could be used against the con- tinental United States if refueled in flight. The Soviets say the Backfire is a medium bomber for naval aviation and for use against peripheral land targets in Asia and Europe. Verification - The ability to monitor each other's missile tests and other weapons developments to check com- pliance and guard against cheating on the treaty terms. National technical means - Photo satellites, radar and other monitoring devices used in verification. Telemetry - Radio signals from test missiles in flight to ground stations, providing information on their perfor- mance and characteristics. The United States insisted that both sides keep such signals in the clear, not in code, so that verification would be unimpeded. Counterforce weapons - Those targeted against an enemy's missile and bomber bases with the aim of destroying hostile weapons-delivery vehicles before they can be launched. First strike - An attempt to get in the first nuclear blow to disarm an enemy. The United States has traditionally foresworn launching any first strategic strike. Second strike - The policy of absor- bing an enemy's first strike and retaliating with a devastating counter- blow. The U.S. nuclear force has been designed for second strike. This un- derlies the U.S. deterrence philosophy. Assured destruction - Massive retaliation in all-out nuclear response to a major Soviet attack. Still the bedrock of U.S. strategy for deterring any Soviet assault. Flexible response - Options to hit targets selectively, particularly military and military-related targets, in an effort to contain the degree of nuclear exchange. Gray-area weapons - "Theater" nuclear arms, such as Soviet SS-20 in- termediate-range ballistic missiles and U.S. nuclear-armed fighter bombers based in Western Europe. They are not limited by SALT II or any other pact.