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...that the Iran-contra affair could indeed affect superpower relations. Coming on top of Reagan's decision to violate the unratified SALT II arms treaty, the scandal has evidently prompted the Kremlin to allow Soviet commentators to attack Reagan personally, something that was avoided in the recent past. Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, called the scandal "a truly cinematic story out of second-rate Hollywood films, in which Ronald Reagan has been featured for years...
...vaunted Strategic Defense Initiative. That militant position was hardly a new one for Weinberger, but the timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that the U.S. plans to abrogate the only fully ratified arms treaty between the superpowers. Sure enough, the Soviets' Georgi Arbatov promptly stated that the letter proved Reagan was "not serious" about the summit. The flap soon subsided, however, and its eventual role at the summit was minimal...
...joint statement augur not imminent accord but protracted discord, and not just between Moscow and Washington but within the Administration as well. Resolving those disputes will take time, probably a long time, and that may be where the summit turns out to have helped most. As Georgi Arbatov, the Soviet Union's best-known Americanologist, put it, "The meeting has improved the possibility that there might be real breakthroughs achieved later...
Only a few days earlier, Soviet spokesmen were talking as though there would be no "later on." They seemed to be predicting dire consequences, perhaps even a breaking off of arms negotiations, if the U.S. failed to give ground on SDI. Arbatov and other Soviets were portraying the summit as perhaps a last chance for an offense-defense compromise, an agreement for deep cuts in missiles in return for a curtailment of Star Wars. That there is now talk of long roads ahead, despite the fact that neither side budged on SDI, is in itself significant, since deadlines have...
...after a while the mask of courtesy began to slip a bit. On Saturday the Soviets wheeled out their designated American hit man, Georgi Arbatov, who asserted that the summit "is not a symptom of improved relations but a test for worsening relations." Arbatov went from cynical to surly at a press conference when a man attempting to ask a question identified himself as a representative of the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Stockholm. "No," Arbatov snapped, "it is the Committee for anti-Soviet Jewry...