Word: agreement
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Never mind, for the moment, that hard and complicated negotiating remains before NATO and the Warsaw Pact can start cutting their conventional forces in Europe to low, equal numbers. Never mind that Bush's goal of reaching agreement in "six months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree...
...Quickly sign an interim agreement locking in the latest Soviet proposals to cut NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces to an equal level, bringing them slightly below those now fielded by NATO. As in all the reductions being considered in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) negotiations under way in Vienna, the reductions would be much deeper for the Warsaw Pact than for NATO...
...Drastically speed up the negotiating process. Bush would chop five years off the proposed Soviet time-table. Moscow had been talking of completing conventional-force reductions only by 1997. Instead, Bush wants to reach an agreement in six months or a year and start the withdrawals...
...plan slips a year or so behind Bush's schedule, so what? The important thing is that the U.S. is fully committed to quick agreement on deep reductions. Bush began talking about conventional arms during the election campaign and now seeks to portray this week's drama as the logical outcome of a "prudent" process. In fact, he made up his mind little more than two weeks before the summit. Even then, Bush moved largely in response to Gorbachev, who had just set forth yet another compelling proposal to Secretary of State James Baker...
...hour stay, Bush sought to reassure Thatcher that she had not been eclipsed by Continental interests. Though it is unlikely that she will have as much influence with the cautious, pragmatic Bush as she did over Ronald Reagan, an ideological soul mate, the two found themselves in agreement on just about everything they discussed...