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...week Shultz and French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson gave every appearance of having patched up that squabble. It was announced that several study groups would be set up to explore ways of coordinating trade relations with the Soviet Union, but France still refused to commit itself to a new accord on East-West trade...
...must protect the MX with antimissile missiles. That would mean drastically renegotiating, and probably abrogating, the 1972 SALT II treaty limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defenses. That pact, which is of indefinite duration and is currently undergoing its ten-year review in Geneva, is the only strategic nuclear arms accord still formally in force between the superpowers. Its collapse, combined with the erosion of the tacit, increasingly fragile regulation of offensive weapons that now exists, would very likely mark the end of arms control and the beginning of a new round in the arms race. This might be characterized...
Maybe the only difference between the new pact and no pact at all is that the GATT accord preserves an illusion of a commitment to free trade. Had the talks failed to reach any agreement, the world's nations would have been forced to realize how much more needs to be done to better trade relations and to prevent protectionism. Now governments can impose tariffs and other restrictions and still remain loyal to the letter of the Geneva package. At the outset of the talks, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary R.T. McNamar declared. "The GATT ministerial decision may well...
...only an hour before Reagan was to go on the air, the French were still recalcitrant. According to U.S. officials, Reagan attempted to place a call to French President François Mitterrand, but Mitterrand refused to come to the phone. Instead, French Presidential Counsellor Jacques Attali told a senior White House official that France not only objected to publication but had "substantive" problems with the accord, which Americans said had not been voiced before (the French insisted that they had). Feeling doublecrossed, Reagan went ahead with his speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night...
...accord with the allies is more rhetoric than anything else. It calls for the United States and Western European countries not to engage in trade agreements "that contribute to the military or strategic advantage of the U.S.S.R." Since deciding what constitutes such an advantage is purely a judgment call, the accord leaves plenty of room for future bickering between the U.S. and the allies. But Reagan made it look as if he was getting something in return for his concessions on the pipeline...