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...Afghan war, the Soviets have made no secret of their impatience to get out. Just how impatient they are with the conflict, which has cost an estimated 20,000 Soviet and 1.2 million Afghan lives, became clearer last week during an official visit to Kabul by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. "We would like the year 1988 to be the last year of the stay of Soviet troops in your country," Shevardnadze told local reporters after two days of meetings with Afghan officials. Even more striking, the Foreign Minister hinted that Moscow was ready to pull out without assurances that...
...Administration is pursuing negotiations with the Soviets aimed at eliminating both stockpiles and production. Earlier talks led Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in August to announce that his country had accepted in principle a 1984 American proposal for short-notice inspections. The best way to assure continued Soviet cooperation, concludes a defense official, is by "expressing our resolve to modernize. Only then do the Soviets become willing to talk." Perhaps. But in the name of deterrence, the U.S. may find itself drawn into a particularly odious and dangerous kind of arms race...
Americans sensed that Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze, who had replaced Gromyko as Foreign Minister in July, had decided that INF was the one area where progress might be possible at the first Reagan-Gorbachev summit, which was to be held in Geneva in November. With that event looming, Karpov turned almost plaintive: "We have an opportunity to resolve some important issues in advance of the meeting of our leaders...
...forging a new superpower relationship more hopeful than either would have dared predict after the collapse of their meeting in Reykjavik just 13 months ago. That they will accomplish their stated goal became a certainty last Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resolved the last differences holding up a treaty to destroy all Soviet and U.S. missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,400 miles...
Negotiators ended the sessions "with a great deal of work having been accomplished, as agreed at the October 30 meeting" between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the Soviet foreign minister, the source said...