Word: dealing
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Casey knew about the shipment, North said, and deliberately misled Congress, avoiding any mention of the deal during testimony in November 1986 -- one of his last official statements on the matter before his death...
...again, Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative may be playing a central role in the Kremlin's thinking. Gorbachev has a history of performing deft flip-flops on whether to demand SDI restrictions as a condition for other arms-control agreements. A year ago, he indicated that an INF deal could be cut separately. That led to October's Reykjavik summit. There the Soviets proposed a package deal, including acceptance of Reagan's zero option on INF in Europe along with deep cuts in strategic weapons and restrictions on SDI. The deal fell apart because Reagan felt Gorbachev was going...
Over the past two weeks high-level Moscow officials have told TIME that the Soviet view all along has been that any summit should, if possible, be based on what they call "INF-plus." The plus they have in mind: tying an INF deal to a "framework agreement" that spells out "key provisions" on deep reductions of strategic arms and bans the testing as well as the deployment of SDI in space...
...officials say they have no formal indication that the Soviets are trying to make an INF deal contingent on a framework involving SDI. "They are making tougher noises on INF," says a high-ranking Administration official, "but I have no sense that they are relinking." Another U.S. official close to the Geneva talks views Moscow's moves as typical presummit posturing. "Shock diplomacy is what they specialize in," says he. "Backtracking on ) INF linkage would be consistent with the kind of shell game we've come to expect...
...weapons. The Soviets have made conflicting noises about whether they might agree to this, but their official position is that they will not. Another stumbling block involves shorter-range missiles. The Soviets insist that 72 old Pershing 1A missiles in West Germany must be dismantled as part of a deal. While the missiles belong to the West Germans, their nuclear warheads belong to the U.S. American officials say eliminating these systems would cause a political uproar in Bonn and strain its ties with Washington. That may be precisely what Moscow has in mind...