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...timing of the shake-up was unfortunate. The President's announcement of the Baker-Regan trade came on the very day that Secretary of State George Shultz was completing his meetings with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, clearing the way for a broad resumption of arms-control talks, a breakthrough that stands as one of Reagan's few solid successes in foreign policy. The game of musical chairs partly upstaged the news from Geneva...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko and Secretary of State George P. Schultz won't participate, and Cambridge representatives probably won't ever make it to the bargaining tables in Geneva, but local politicians are preparing to send a peace delegation of their own to the Soviet Union...
...will strongly protest alleged Soviet violations of existing arms- control treaties. In particular, Shultz was supposed to tell Gromyko that the giant radar station the Soviets are building near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia is "a dagger pointed at the heart of arms control." The U.S. considers the installation to be a step toward development of a nationwide system of antiballistic-missile defenses forbidden by a 1972 treaty. An Administration official elaborated that the U.S. must be assured of Moscow's compliance with past treaties if it is to have any "confidence we can conclude a satisfactory agreement in the future...
...position. Though the Kremlin has talked much less than the White House about arms-control negotiations, its views are no secret. The only kind of deal in which it has indicated any interest is one that would kill Star Wars in return for cuts in offensive missiles and warheads. Gromyko was also expected to demand again a ban on antisatellite tests...
Thus, the Geneva talks seemed unlikely to result in any breakthrough. That prospect did not displease Pentagon hawks. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle predicted, "The Shultz-Gromyko talks are going to produce this mouse, and the mouse is going to scurry across the stage, and the press is going to ask, 'Well, was that...