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Gorbachev continued his propaganda blitz with some carrot-and-stick diplomacy. He dangled the carrot in front of eight American Senators, led by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who called on him in the Kremlin. Gorbachev, said Byrd, promised that if the U.S. "would agree to prohibit the militarization of space," in other words call a halt to Star Wars, Moscow would "put on the negotiating table . . . the very next day" a set of the "most radical proposals" to reduce offensive nuclear weapons...
...that represented Moscow's stick, Gorbachev also held out a carrot. At a dinner for Craxi, Gorbachev called for a revival of "the spirit, the atmosphere and the essence of detente" and promised that "the (arms reduction) proposals made by us some time ago are still standing." He renewed an offer to shrink the number of Europe-based Soviet missiles to 162, equal to that of British and French nuclear missiles; he also revived a 1983 proposal to freeze Soviet intermediate-range-missile deployment in Asia if nuclear cuts could be achieved in Europe. The U.S. has previously rejected both...
While he still makes all the final decisions, Steinberg now delegates more. Says a former employee: "As a boss, he is mostly carrot and very little stick. He is very demanding. His goal is to get more out of people than they realize they have to give." Steinberg lives with his third wife, Gayfryd, and two of his six children in a 34-room Park Avenue triplex once owned by John D. Rockefeller...
...contras will lead to increased political freedoms in Nicaragua "unless you have made sure the Soviets and the Cubans are going to do the same vis-a-vis the Sandinistas." Summed up Cruz: "I disagree completely with the apologists who want to give the Sandinistas only the carrot and not the stick. It won't work...
...plan, which was put together by Democrat Les Aspin of Wisconsin, aims a carrot and stick at Moscow: money for the missiles will be held in escrow until next April. If the Soviets agree to resume talks on strategic arms limitations, the MX program will remain on hold. If not, the money will be appropriated. The $2.7 billion that the House Armed Services Committee had requested for 30 missiles was cut to $1.8 billion...