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...vitally affected by a simple fact of nature: age. It is not just that Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, like Reagan, is 73, but that, quite unlike Reagan, he is ailing. What is more, Chernenko's age is not at all unusual in the top leadership. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the voice of the Kremlin at international conferences for decades, is 75, though apparently in good health. Newly appointed Defense Minister Marshal Sergei Sokolov is 73; Premier Nikolai Tikhonov is 79. Sooner or later, they will have to give way to less familiar faces; the process, in fact, may already...
...will be in overall charge of the U.S. delegation and also handle the talks on space weapons. Former Senator John Tower will be the U.S. negotiator on strategic weapons, and career Diplomat Maynard Glitman will be the point man on the intermediate-range missile discussions. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared last week that unless the U.S. was willing to bargain seriously on space weapons, arms-control negotiations would be "blown up." Weinberger said that he flatly "ruled out" giving up Star Wars. Yet Secretary of State George Shultz was more flexible, agreeing that it "makes sense" to look...
...they mean it? One good augury for future negotiations is that the Geneva talks were conducted in a serious spirit. Gromyko made clear the Soviet opposition to Star Wars time and again. But the Americans agreed that he never spoke heatedly. Shultz was also polite, though stern, even when complaining about alleged Soviet violations of existing arms-control treaties. The two sides proved adept at framing communique language ambiguous enough to accommodate their differences...
That question was very much on Andrei Gromyko's mind in Geneva last week. George Shultz, who prides himself on being a straight talker, was in the awkward position of having to hedge and dodge. A Soviet official said after the meeting, "Whenever our side tried to learn about the specifics of the American space-arms program, Mr. Shultz tried to answer us with vague generalities and rather unhelpful lectures...
...revive that process that Shultz and Gromyko have initiated a new round of talks. But achieving an agreement will be especially hard now that the U.S. has reopened the issue of strategic defenses. The Soviets are all the less likely to cut back their offensive forces if the U.S. is bent on trying to render "impotent and obsolete" the ones they are allowed to keep...