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...that subject, Shultz ventured a prediction of sorts: If Gorbachev takes the same combative line in Geneva that he did in Moscow, the summit could become "something of a spectator sport. The President is an old hand at this." Said the Secretary, with a weary grin: "I'm looking forward...
...part from his meeting with the Shultz team, Gorbachev has been keeping a low presummit profile. He made only obligatory public appearances at last week's celebrations of the 68th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, reviewing the traditional parade of Soviet military might from atop the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square on Thursday and delivering a brief address at a Kremlin reception expressing hope for a "fruitful" summit. But the Revolution Day symbolism was every bit as unyielding as any of Gorbachev's remarks to his American visitors. NO TO STAR WARS proclaimed many of the posters tacked up around...
...from five minutes to ten and had it beamed worldwide over the Voice of America network. It was a highly personal talk stressing Americans' political and moral values and yearning for peace, and it alluded only briefly to the summit. Said the President: "I hope my discussions with Mr. Gorbachev in Geneva will be fruitful and will lead to future meetings. We seek peace not only for ourselves but for all those who inhabit this small planet." Translators rendered the speech into 42 languages, including Russian, Ukrainian and other tongues spoken in the U.S.S.R., where Washington estimated the potential shortwave...
Reagan, like Gorbachev, had little new to say on substantive issues--with one misleading and embarrassing exception. In a long interview with five Soviet reporters that was published at the start of last week, Reagan astonishingly declared that the U.S. would not only negotiate with the Soviets before deploying a Star Wars system and offer to share the technology but that it would not deploy an SDI system "until we [the U.S. and U.S.S.R.] do away with our nuclear missiles, our offensive missiles." In fact, he repeated the thought in only slightly different language three times, which raised an obvious...
Otherwise, Reagan has been sketching a cool and consistent line toward the summit. While Gorbachev wants to focus on arms control, the President will insist on reviewing the full spectrum of U.S.-Soviet differences. What he plans to tell Gorbachev, advisers say, is roughly this: The U.S. does not and will not threaten the Soviet Union militarily or politically. It is the U.S.S.R. that killed détente by its military buildup and its aggressive efforts to spread Communism through the Third World. The U.S. is eager for a fresh start, but that will require modification of the behavior that causes...