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...seeking to refocus the summit agenda, Reagan may have regained some of the momentum from Gorbachev hi the contest for world opinion. The gambit was an attempt to put the Soviet leader on the defensive during the summit. As one adviser bluntly explained: "We were looking for a way to recapture the propaganda initiative...
...regional conflicts, although justifiable, are unlikely to prove negotiable. It is remotely possible that the Soviets, seeking a way to extricate themselves from the endless guerrilla war in Afghanistan, might at length agree to some U.N.-sponsored compromise on that subject. But there would be general astonishment if Gorbachev accepted the President's proposals for talks looking toward an end of Soviet involvement in Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Angola and Cambodia...
...which, he said, "nothing can justify." Advisers indicate that "major" might have been an overstatement; the proposals are likely to involve more open communications and greater movement across East-West borders. Then there will be human rights, always a touchy topic for any Soviet leader and one on which Gorbachev is preparing a vigorous counter-campaign. In his U.N. speech, the President asserted that "we Americans do not accept that any government has the right to command and order the lives of its people" and placed this philosophical belief "at the core of our deep and abiding differences with...
...year history of Soviet-American summitry there has never been so little agreement over what those due to meet would discuss. Ronald Reagan's speech at the United Nations may have succeeded in achieving his principal objective, which is to steal a march on Mikhail Gorbachev by publicly trying to set the agenda for the summit. But the President chose to define that agenda in a way that is clearly unacceptable to the Soviets. Reagan has put the world on notice that he does not want to give priority to arms control, despite (and in some ways because of) Gorbachev...
...U.S.S.R. In 1982 he moved to head off the nuclear freeze movement by proposing deep cuts primarily in Soviet warheads. Then in 1983 he went the freeze movement one better and proposed to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" with his Strategic Defense Initiative. Now, in response to Gorbachev's ambitious peace offensive and offer to cut offensive weapons if Star Wars is scrapped, Reagan is responding with, "Let's talk about something else, something that the Soviets, to their discredit, don't want to talk about...