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...sessions were supposed to end on Sunday morning, but with the chance of an agreement of historic proportions in sight, the two sides met on into the evening. It was only after sunset that the optimism began to unravel. To the Soviets, every element of the deal, it seemed, hinged on the curtailment of Star Wars. When that proved impossible, there was nothing left to do but offer grim handshakes and go home. The original purpose of the meeting--to set a date for a full-scale summit in the U.S. and work out a frame work for an agreement...
...several critical areas we made more progress than we anticipated when we came to Iceland," said Reagan before he prepared to board Air Force One for the flight home Sunday night. "We moved toward agreement on drastically reduced numbers of intermediate range missiles in both Europe and Asia. We approached agreement on sharply reduced strategic arsenals for both our countries." But, he added, "there was remaining at the end of our talks one area of disagreement." He said "the Soviet Union insisted that we sign an agreement that would deny to me and future Presidents for ten years the right...
...agreement broke down over the issue of exactly what would be permitted under the ABM treaty during those ten years. The U.S. interpretation of the treaty is that research, development and testing of new technologies--just about everything short of actual deployment--are allowed under the treaty. But there is dispute on this point, and the Administration has said in the past that it will abide by what it calls a "strict" interpretation of the pact, one that permits research but not full-scale development of new systems...
Doesn't Ronald Reagan? "Yup," says the President, sounding as if he were off somewhere in the desert ready to ride into high noon. "But I am not going to agree to something that is not good just to have an agreement...
...logic of the American position eventually prevailed. The Glassboro meeting led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). At a summit in Moscow in 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a pair of agreements embodying McNamara's recommendation to Kosygin at Glassboro: a treaty restricting antiballistic-missile defenses and an interim accord on offenses. The ABM treaty is still in force; the offensive agreement was replaced in 1979 by SALT II, which was never ratified and which expired last year but still serves as a check on the arsenals of the two sides while they try to negotiate...