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...success in placing ads in Pravda." In fact, the U.S. has found itself on the defensive in the game of public diplomacy. When the Soviets proposed a moratorium on nuclear testing last month, the U.S. awkwardly demurred, insisting that the ban would not be verifiable without on-site inspection. Gorbachev promptly retorted that the ban could be verified with existing satellites and seismic devices. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes huffed last week that nuclear testing is "far too serious from our standpoint to resort to public relations gimmicks...
COVER: Few agreements, little trust, but Reagan and Gorbachev keep trying 22 In high-ceilinged drawing rooms and before a blazing fire, for five hours alone and four with aides, the strong-willed superpower leaders strove and failed to define rules to keep U.S.-Soviet rivalry manageable. But their resolve to continue the dialogue in two future summits gives reason for hope. An inside report on their historic talks in Geneva. See NATION...
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked in Geneva through more complex lattices. They sat by the fire in the Château Fleur d'Eau and interpreted the world for each other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural...
...vision of a safer world, and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party did not believe a word of it. As the two superpower leaders sat across from each other last week at the bargaining table in an elegant salon in Geneva, Ronald Reagan implored Mikhail Gorbachev to join him in his dream of "rendering nuclear weapons obsolete" with a space-based missile defense system. Coldly fixing Reagan in his gaze, Gorbachev would have none of it. "It's not convincing. It's emotional. It's a dream. Who can control it? Who can monitor...
Frustrated, Gorbachev exclaimed, "Why don't you believe us when we say we will not use weapons against...