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While Reagan and Gorbachev seem not to have succeeded in cutting any of the knots in arms control, they may have bought some more time for their negotiators to continue trying to unravel the strings. Here is where the symbolic success, and the resulting improvement in atmosphere, can be important. Now that the two smiling leaders have displayed so publicly their determination to pursue arms control, it is harder to imagine their more hard-line advisers' scuttling the process. Just as Reagan has his hawks who would like to see SDI provide a pretext for abandoning past agreements and blocking...
...Editors: Whatever a person's political bent, I like to think there is an intangible value in two human beings' looking into each other's eyes, as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have done [NATION, Nov. 18]. Our political systems may differ, but the hopes and fears of the Soviet and American people do not. Richard L. Swenson Tacoma...
China's wise leader Deng Xiaoping made a good impression on European readers like me. Mikhail Gorbachev should take lessons from Deng and also foster a market economy. It would help bring prosperity and a higher standard of living to the Soviet people. Western politicians should intensify their relations with this newly developing China. Carsten Jaeger Wiesbaden, West Germany Spy's Smile...
...about his programs looks irrelevant these days. The endless reports about staff conflicts and personality clashes within the Administration, however true, turn out to be footnotes. The vaunted foreign people eaters, such as Canada's Pierre Trudeau, West Germany's Helmut Schmidt and now the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, have marched one by one into Reagan's presence. None managed to devour him. Instead they have, to a man and woman, emerged with varying degrees of respect and affection...
...know Communism," Reagan told an aide before he sat down with Gorbachev. "I've followed it for 30 years." He would not, he vowed, make it a Mike and Ronnie show, nor a kissing, hugging acquaintance. Yet, when the Soviet boss showed up, Reagan, in directing him up the stairs, touched Gorbachev gently on the arm. A surprising number of people who saw that small gesture remembered it. That was body language for civility, not intimacy...