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...between the two sides-some left over from past negotiations and a few new ones-may make any agreement unattainable. The very selection of the chief negotiators symbolizes what has changed since the previous round of talks ended, during the June 1979 Vienna summit between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. Rowny, 65, a retired Army lieutenant general, was the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT n). He opposed compromises made during the talks and quit the delegation in protest on the eve of the treaty-signing ceremony. He then devoted himself...
Thus Rowny personifies the Administration's repudiation of the past. By contrast, Karpov, 53, headed the Soviet negotiating team during the final months of SALT II and was proudly present during the ceremony in Vienna. He represents Brezhnev's determination to "preserve what is positive that has already been accomplished...
...between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In a 1979 article attacking President Carter's restrictions on technology transfers to the Soviet Union, Shultz wrote, "We cannot use trade as a tool designed to alter the domestic politics of other countries." The incoming Secretary also met Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev twice in 1973, to discuss ways to increase trade between the two nations...
...beaming this message to the world: "If you want peace, then it's full steam ahead for war." But when Gromyko met Secretary of State Alexander Haig for a five-hour discussion on Friday, the Soviet Foreign Minister brought up again the subject of a possible Reagan-Brezhnev summit this fall. Haig's reply, in essence: maybe...
...world leaders were dazzled by Reagan's blue-and-gray plaid, wait until they see the one he has stashed away in his closet. It has the identical cut and pattern, only in brown. White House strategists believe the President should spring it on Leonid Brezhnev in the fall, provided the Soviet leader has recovered his health...