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Secretary of State George P. Shultz said Gorbachev sent a verbal message through diplomatic channels after the summit urging Shultz to meet next month in Vienna with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...themselves as neutral, Iceland has been a NATO member since 1949. The country has neither an army nor a navy, but the Keflavik base, which monitors Soviet ship traffic in the crucial North Atlantic sea-lanes, is staffed by some 3,000 U.S. military personnel. When Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was discussing the summit, he told reporters that his delegation knew they would be safe in Reykjavik. Why? "You (Americans) have a very big base there," he said, smiling...
...proposed a snap meeting to negotiate a ban on nuclear tests. But Reagan and his closest advisers had had no hint that the Soviet leader was about to suggest, under conditions of strict secrecy, a far broader meeting. Upon beginning talks in Washington on $ Sept. 19, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze had informed Secretary of State George Shultz that he was carrying a letter from Gorbachev to Reagan. Shultz called White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan to suggest that he bring Shevardnadze to the Oval Office to deliver it in person. But not until Shevardnadze handed two copies...
...free U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff, accused by the Soviets of being an American spy. There were plot twists: unscheduled diplomatic meetings and a nighttime passage through a delivery entrance at the U.S. mission to the U.N. There was George Shultz in the Soviet mission and Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.S. headquarters. There was maddeningly incomplete information. From Shultz: "It's under discussion. It isn't settled yet." From Shevardnadze: "Yes, yes, yes. It is a possibility." From a Soviet spokesman in Moscow, there was even a triple negative: "We do not see progress...
...series of meetings between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.N. in New York City uncovered the outlines of a potential bargain: Daniloff would be released quickly and probably without any trial on what the U.S. regards as trumped-up espionage charges against him. Zakharov would be traded later for one or more Soviet dissidents. The expulsion of the 25 Soviets at the U.N. remains a sticking point...