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Back during the Cold War, when the leaders of the world's major powers got together, there was anticipation for weeks. In Vienna in 1961, the Cold War took a turn for the worse as Kennedy and Khrushchev squared off over Berlin, and in Glassboro, N.J., in 1967 it took a turn for the better as Lyndon Johnson and the Soviet leader met days after the Six-Day War and the defection of Joseph Stalin's daughter to the U.S caused outrage in Moscow. In Iceland in 1986, Gorbachev and Reagan met and almost banned nuclear weapons. When Chinese President...
...dream of a comprehensive, impregnable, space-based shield that would render offensive nuclear forces "impotent and obsolete." He has argued that deterrence based on the threat of retaliation is immoral and a "defense that really defends" is benevolent, an eerie echo of Kosygin's rebuttal to McNamara at Glassboro. Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative charge that the Soviet offensive buildup proves that the U.S.S.R. never really accepted the logic of McNamara's argument and has violated the spirit (as well as the letter) of the SALT agreements...
...most conciliatory statements came on June 19 in a speech to a high school graduating class. He praised the Soviets' latest proposals in Geneva and said he was hoping that Gorbachev would "join me in taking action--action in the name of peace." The site of that speech was Glassboro...
...Soviets, who do not believe in coincidence, were struck not only by what Reagan said but by where he said it. According to a senior Soviet diplomat, Reagan's Glassboro speech contributed to Gorbachev's interest in a minisummit similar to the Glassboro meeting...
...June 1967 the Soviet Premier, Aleksei Kosygin, came to New York City to visit the United Nations. After some difficulty, it was arranged for the Premier and President Johnson to meet on June 23 at Glassboro, NJ.--Glassboro is halfway between New York and Washington--to discuss the question of ABM deployment. At lunch in New Jersey on that June day, the President, the Premier and a group of their associates were sitting around a small oval table. It was clear the President was becoming frustrated by Kosygin's failure to see the U.S. point of view on ABM defenses...