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...START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) and INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) negotiations that it broke off at the end of 1983, when the NATO missile deployment began. Moscow had long insisted that the U.S. would have to pull the missiles out as a precondition for new talks, but Gromyko made no such demand last week. Shultz did not even have to defend the U.S. plan to begin testing an ASAT system this spring. Gromyko had been expected to repeat a Soviet demand of last summer that any new negotiations begin with a moratorium on antisatellite tests, but according...
...case, the Soviets left no doubt that killing Star Wars remains their prime objective. Shultz last week devoted many of his 14 hours of talks with Gromyko to explaining the U.S. position that successful development of a defensive system would enhance nuclear stability and lessen the danger of a cataclysm. He got nowhere. Gromyko once grumbled, "I have heard six explanations of SDI and I still do not understand your point." In his departure statement, which he read to reporters in English, Moscow's Foreign Minister took care to note that "the Soviet side particularly stressed the importance of preventing...
Neither side had much to say at Geneva about intermediate-range missiles--at least that it was ready to disclose to the press. Accounts differed as to whether Gromyko had renewed the Soviet demand that British and French nuclear forces be counted in any eventual agreement. It really did not matter much; he is quite certain to do so when actual bargaining resumes. The U.S. is equally sure to stick to its position that American and Soviet intermediate- range missiles be limited to equal numbers of warheads. It will again argue that British and French missiles must be left...
Aside from notetakers and translators, only Nitze, McFarlane and U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman accompanied Shultz to the actual meetings; the Soviet side included Gromyko, Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin, First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko and Arms Negotiator Victor Karpov. From time to time one of the U.S. team, usually McFarlane, entered the bubble, where briefing papers often disappeared under salami sandwiches and coffee cups, to inform the rest of the delegation what was happening. At the end, two veteran Washington antagonists even indulged in some genial clowning before journalists at the Hotel Intercontinental. As Perle waited...
However happy the atmosphere seemed to be in Geneva, the road ahead is bound to be long and difficult. Gromyko spoke of "the immense tasks which must be addressed in the course of these negotiations." Again using remarkably similar language, Reagan noted, "These new negotiations will be difficult as we grapple with the issues so central to peace and security for ourselves, our allies and the world." But, echoing each other yet a third time, the two pledged a major effort. Gromyko: "The Soviet Union is prepared to go its part of the road." Reagan: "For our part...