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...Monday morning a resolute President strode to the podium and unveiled a bold plan for a "revolutionary" conventional-arms-reduction agreement. He put forward, with full alliance backing, an imaginative, sweeping proposal to speed up the talks to achieve deep cuts in troops, tanks, artillery and aircraft in Europe. The plan not only met Gorbachev's initiatives but topped them by calling for cutbacks that would erase the East bloc's numerical advantage while slashing the U.S. presence on European soil, all within three years...
...Offer to reduce the number of "combat aircraft" -- for the moment a term left carefully undefined -- and helicopters to 15% below current NATO levels. This is a major U.S. concession, since NATO has steadfastly refused to discuss aircraft reductions. Under the Bush proposal, all aircraft (and other equipment) taken out of service would be destroyed...
Foreigners crowded Beijing's airport, trying to escape a chaotic city where tanks and troops raced along main avenues firing at random. In Washington, the State Department urged all Americans "to leave at once" and has begun to charter commercial aircraft to help evacuate civilians from Beijing and Shanghai...
Other countries urged their citizens to leave Beijing. In Washington, an administration official said the United States was considering the use of chartered aircraft to evacuate Americans...
...Gorbachev's thunder but also, perhaps, help heal a deep rift within the Western alliance. In the words of one of its architects, it would be a "real attention getter": a reduction of up to 10% of the 340,000 U.S. troops in Europe, with corresponding cuts in NATO aircraft and helicopters, if the Soviets agree to reduce their conventional forces to the levels the West has proposed. He is also expected to relax sanctions on trade with the Soviets imposed by the U.S. after the Red Army invaded Afghanistan...