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...lend itself to compromise, especially in an Administration where arms control is, at best, highly suspect The prevailing view, represented most forcefully in closed-door meetings by Perle, has remained that no agreement is better than a bad agreement and any agreement that leaves the Soviets with any SS-20s is a bad agreement...
...allies are close to the other end of the spectrum: almost any agreement is better than none and any agreement that significantly limits the SS-20s is probably a good one or at least the best that can be hoped for, given the apparent shakiness of NATO's resolve to deploy the Pershing IIs and cruise missiles. If the talks fail, the West European governments are going to have to be able to claim the U.S. negotiated in good faith and that the failure was because of Moscow...
...agreed in 1979 to the "two-track" approach. The U.S. would set about putting new missiles in Europe by 1983 unless it could reach an agreement with the U.S.S.R. in the meantime that would reduce the Soviet nuclear threat in the region, preferably by cutting the number of SS-20s...
...televised speech on Dec. 21, Andropov offered to reduce the number of SS-20s aimed at Western Europe from the current level of 250 to somewhere around 162, equal to the number of British and French missiles. He also implied that the U.S.S.R. would take out of commission its old SS-4sand...
...proposal was deceptive and vague. The SS-4s and SS-5s were overdue for the scrap heap anyway. The Soviets may have deployed excess SS-20s precisely so that they could negotiate away some of the surplus to prove their reasonableness. Moreover, Andropov left open the possibility of merely moving the excess SS-20s so that they were east of the Urals; from there the missiles could be put on trains and brought back within range of Europe...