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Such a system might violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty of 1972, but Soviet President Gorbachev said last Saturday that he was willing to discuss the development of non-nuclear missile defense systems. If linked to American concessions on economic aid, the Soviets might indeed agree to modify or abolish the treaty...
Bush's stunning proposals please Gorbachev, but Moscow still wants to dicker...
...diarist describes Gorbachev's ordeal during the August coup...
...Gorbachev's assessment was not much different. On Friday morning the Kremlin leader received a letter from the White House outlining the proposals. He talked them over with top advisers, including arms-control negotiator Victor Karpov and Defense Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and then took a phone call from Bush -- all before the President went on TV. Sounding a bit incredulous, Gorbachev asked whether some of the American moves really were unilateral rather than conditioned on a Soviet response; Bush assured him they were. That extensive consultation was itself a welcome illustration of the current ; civility in U.S.-Soviet relations...
More generally, Bush's proposals might bolster Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's chances to cut military spending and devote more resources to the crippled civilian economy. The nuclear cutbacks Bush envisions will not save much money for either the U.S. or the Soviets; some of them indirectly increase costs. "Disarmament is sometimes costly," admits Pavel Palashenko, a Gorbachev aide. But the proposals do give Gorbachev and Yeltsin a chance to argue that the U.S. is not taking advantage of Soviet economic weakness to seek military advantage...