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...based, claimed partial credit for devising the plan. The most notable claimant was Chancellor Schmidt, who likes to see himself as a useful mediator between the superpowers. Reagan's speech, said Schmidt, "gives me a broad base for the talks" he will have this week with Brezhnev. For once in the East-West war of words, the Soviets will be forced to react to an American peace initiative...
...seriously committed to the "two-track" decision reached by NATO in 1979, which linked the stationing of new nuclear weapons in Europe to a renewed effort by the U.S. to negotiate realistic arms limits with the Soviets. The President helped dispel some of those doubts. In Bonn, where Brezhnev was scheduled to start a four-day visit on Sunday, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had just concluded talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Reagan has set forth a comprehensive concept for the stabilization of peace," said Schmidt. Added Thatcher: "It will receive a warm welcome not only in political circles...
...Soviet concept of a zero option is different. President Leonid Brezhnev has said that if NATO dropped its deployment plans, the U.S.S.R. would "reduce the total" of its missiles; but by how much, he did not say. NATO would not have a single ground-based missile capable of reaching the U.S.S.R. Yet there would be numbers of Soviet missiles within striking distance of Western Europe, just as there are today...
...speech last week (see NATION), President Reagan moved to seize the opportunity. In.offering to drop plans to deploy U.S. intermediate-range missiles if the Soviets dismantle theirs, he tried, belatedly and for the first time, to allay Europe's roiling fears. He also sought to undercut Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had skillfully exploited America's essential and long-held views on nuclear strategy to portray the Soviet Union as the only superpower devoted to the search for peace (see ESSAY). While Reagan's proposal was hailed by Europe's leaders, the reaction of the peace groups was ambivalent. They...
...ruble, the Soviets, who have been slow to react in the past to propaganda opportunities, have swiftly and adroitly exploited the European antimissile movement. Seizing upon a series of unfortunate slips of the tongue on the part of the President and other top U.S. Administration officials, Soviet President Brezhnev has, in speeches, interviews and conversations with visiting statesmen, portrayed President Reagan as a warmonger intent on destabilizing the global military balance by trying to achieve nuclear superiority. After a visit to the Kremlin, Michael Foot, leader of Britain's Labor Party, which favors unilateral nuclear disarmament, reported that "the Soviet...