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...advance stories in U.S. media built up hopes for a breakthrough, Moscow's Pravda noted the start of the talks in a terse, dry item on page 4. The agreement, however, became major Soviet news. Pravda even carried a rare photo, of Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, on leaving Geneva Wednesday morning...
...surely the first time that Gromyko and Reagan had felt disposed to echo each other. But, then, they faced an unfamiliar task: describing an agreement that Gromyko had reached with Secretary of State George Shultz. To be sure, it was only an agreement to talk some more--specifically, to resume formal arms-control bargaining at a time and place to be selected within a month. Moreover, the U.S. and Soviet positions entering those new negotiations are very far apart; there is no assurance that they can be harmonized. Nonetheless, the similar statements by Gromyko and Reagan pointed to a tacit...
...even that far required two days of tense discussions, with the outcome in doubt until the very end. The mere announcement that Shultz and Gromyko would meet in Geneva Jan. 7 and 8 initially raised high hopes around the world. But by the time the U.S. and Soviet delegations arrived in the Swiss city, the negotiating climate seemed not much warmer than the temperature, which dropped so low (14 degrees F) that Gromyko said jokingly that he would "rather be in Siberia." Both sides came in talking so tough that U.S. journalists in the immense press corps (see box) were...
...Gromyko in fact did threaten to walk out on the spot if the U.S. would not renounce, in advance of any formal bargaining, its Strategic Defense Initiative to develop a system that could intercept and destroy nuclear missiles. Shultz replied that the U.S. would rather leave Geneva without an agreement than abandon SDI, which is popularly known as Star Wars. The Soviets decided to try again later and kept talking. Nonetheless, said Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, a member of Shultz's team, "if the final session Tuesday afternoon had ended on schedule (at 5 p.m.), the conference would...