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...Secretary of State George Shultz traveled to the Hill to cajole key members. Also making pleas to Senators were ambassadors from West Germany, Britain and Italy. Nunn's amendment was defeated by a 55-41 vote, but only after Maine Republican William Cohen had worked out a less drastic alternative: U.S. troops would stay at the present level while the allies would be prodded to increase their commitments. Said Nunn afterward: "I achieved what I set out to do, trigger a serious debate. The main objective is to provoke European allies into doing more...
...race, but they have yet to see an American proposal that meets them halfway. What would be required is nothing less than a whole new American START negotiating position, one that offers more in the way of genuine concessions on cruise missiles and demands less in the way of drastic reductions in the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The best alternative to surface so far is the State Department's framework approach of last year, with its combination of ceilings on launchers (including bombers) and warheads (including cruise missiles...
...outset locked itself into a negotiating position that seemed almost calculated to guarantee Soviet rejection. In both its opening proposal and the subsequent negotiations in Geneva, the Administration seemed bent on forcing drastic cuts in existing Soviet forces while accepting only marginal restrictions on future U.S. programs. Administration officials admitted that their position was "front-loaded" with measures that would squeeze the Soviets in the short run, but they claimed that the long-term effect would be true equality and greater stability. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet spokesmen were contemptuous in dismissing what they called a "cynical American...
cancellation of its plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Had the Soviets been willing to remove Euromissiles from the agenda of START and deal only with intercontinental weapons, their position might have led to an accept able compromise. The result could have been significant though not drastic reductions in their ICBM forces in exchange for limitations on American air-and sea-launched cruise missiles...
...race, but they have yet to see an American proposal that meets them halfway. What would be required is nothing less than a whole new American START negotiating position, one that offers more in the way of genuine concessions on cruise missiles and demands less in the way of drastic reductions in the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The best alternative to surface so far is the State Department's framework approach of last year, with its combination of ceilings on launchers (including bombers) and warheads (including cruise missiles...