Word: gorbachev
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...moment, Washington is stuck for an effective way to counter Gorbachev's grandiose initiative. Caught off guard, officials have only begun to ponder whether to make a new American propos al, and, if so, what to put in it. The debate is likely to be sharp; the Administration has long been deeply divided over arms control, and previous American proposals have emerged only after prolonged and sometimes heated pulling and hauling...
...line is simply to insist that Soviet negotiators spell out all the small print in Gorbachev's proposals. So far as it goes, that is logical. For all its ambiguities and propagandistic sweep, the plan hints at enough concessions to spur serious negotiating. Only detailed probing at Geneva will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come...
Through the years, both nations have often proclaimed their fealty to a world without nuclear weapons and occasionally presented vague plans with phrases like those used by Gorbachev last week. In 1952 Benjamin Cohen, the American delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission, offered a set of guidelines that included "the dead" of all instruments adaptable to mass destruction." Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 declared Moscow's support for "general and complete disarmament." The phrase became a staple of Soviet pronouncements and a regular item on the U.N. agenda, though the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have never quite been able...
During Reagan's term, both sides have shown a propensity for publicly unveiling sweeping new proposals on the eve of important talks, partly as propaganda. Gorbachev's latest gambit follows in this vein. It also follows in the thus far fruitless tradition of proclaiming the goal of total nuclear disarmament. But the goal is no less worthy than when Baruch spoke of the choice facing the world at the dawn of the atomic age 40 years...
...final communiqué that failed to include the topic would be unacceptable. At the end of last week the Soviets appeared ready to make an oblique reference to the dispute in a joint statement. The new Soviet approach to Japan appears to be largely due to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is believed to be anxious to improve his country's image in Asia generally. Relations with China have improved, Soviet influence has increased over North Korea, and Moscow has tried to mend its fences with the six-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations. As one U.S. diplomat recalls being told...