Word: gorbachevized
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...broker a peace conference, Scowcroft sets the overall game plan. Scowcroft, for instance, proposed cutting U.S. conventional forces in Europe, an idea that culminated in the signing of a treaty by 22 nations in November 1990. Bush's December 1989 surprise meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev was cooked up by the President and Scowcroft on the veranda of the American embassy in Paris after Bush made a four-day swing through fast- changing Poland and Hungary...
Bush calculates, no doubt correctly, that Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are every bit as frightened of that prospect as he is, especially in the wake of the aborted coup in August...
...central feature of last week's initiative -- the elimination of MIRVed ICBMs -- is recycled from a proposal that Bush first thought about putting to Gorbachev two years ago. In November 1989, when Bush was preparing for his first meeting as President with Gorbachev at Malta, the State Department floated the idea that the U.S. should seek a ban on mobile MIRVed ICBMs. The department tried to promote the plan at the White House as a way of giving a "Bush stamp" to a START treaty that was otherwise largely the inherited handiwork of the Reagan Administration...
...that it has been revived, the objections may come from the Defense Ministry in Moscow. Since the Soviets have many more MIRVed ICBMs than does the U.S., Gorbachev's military advisers are likely to tell him that a prohibition on such weapons is a net disadvantage to them. Therefore, instead of merely accepting the U.S. proposal, the Soviets may carry the logic of Scowcroft's position a step further; they may say, If we're going to be truly serious about de-MIRVing, why stop at the water's edge? Why not ban MIRVs on submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs...
Last November the leaders of 22 nations met in Paris to sign a treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) that had been under negotiation for nearly 17 years. In July, during their summit meeting in Moscow, Bush and Gorbachev signed another pact capping a decade of START talks...