Word: breakthrough
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...prodding of both sides, became a symbol to Gemayel's Muslim foes of what they saw as his subservience to Washington and Jerusalem. The U.S. and Israel stood by the agreement even after it was clearly doomed, believing that it was, at the very least, a symbolic breakthrough toward peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...
...thing, the trend was already moving in the State Department's direction. Even though Reagan has yet to focus on the details of the framework approach, he has become tantalized by the idea of achieving a breakthrough before the election. He has authorized Shultz to discuss the possibility of a new START approach with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin. If there is to be progress, Reagan stressed last week, it will be achieved through "quiet diplomacy." A number of policymakers emphasized that in addition to cooling the public rhetoric...
Reagan is, according to his aides, somewhat more interested in a summit meeting now than he was last year, when he strongly implied there must first be a major breakthrough in the arms-control negotiations. Republican strategists believe the President would benefit from a grand gesture of statesmanship and that even the more modest accomplishment of resuming the stalled talks in Geneva would deprive the Democrats of a potentially damaging issue. "All other things being equal," says an Administration official, "we'd rather that Walter Mondale not be able to go into the campaign accusing us of having presided...
...suspicion and ambiguity. General Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), began the week on what appeared to be an upbeat note by declaring that if the Soviets return to the bargaining table, "we are now in a posi-tion to make a breakthrough." He suggested that the U.S. might trade some of its edge in bombers and air-launched cruise missiles for Soviet cutbacks in its lead in heavy land-based missiles. He also indicated that the U.S. might be willing to merge START with the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks, which deal...
Though both sides are worn down, the fighting drags on. South Africa still refuses to acknowledge, let alone encounter, spokesmen from SWAPO. Even if cease-fire talks could take place, they would not address the trickiest issue in the whole equation: the Cubans. For a breakthrough to occur, says a U.S. diplomat, "there would have to be an awful lot of common sense and logic. So far that has not been the case...