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...days after reelection, Reagan sent an earnest note to Chernenko. A week later, surprisingly swift for the Soviet bureaucracy, the White House received a letter from Chernenko proposing the Shultz-Gromyko conference. "There had been positive signals," says a presidential adviser, "but nothing this explicit." Perle, probably the most influential arms-control critic in the Administration, had his calculations thrown off. Said he: "I'm amazed the Soviets came back to the table so soon. I hadn't expected them until spring...
...Kremlin. Most important, he will be received at 10 Downing Street, possibly more than once. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has been hinting publicly for 14 months that she would welcome talks with the Soviet leadership, noted that Gorbachev's visit will be followed by one from Gromyko early in 1985. Said Thatcher: "We shall hope during these visits to take forward the search for ways to reduce the burden of armaments." Acting in concert with Washington, the British may use their time with Gorbachev to sound out the opening Soviet position in Geneva and to hint at "Washington...
...agreements. By early next year, the Administration must decide on the second question, whether the U.S. should continue to abide by the old SALT agreements while it seeks to negotiate new treaties in the talks that Secretary of State George Shultz plans to propose to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January...
...protect the President's diplomatic options. Reagan has said repeatedly that he hopes to reach an arms-control agreement with the U.S.S.R. in his second term. But if his Administration officially renders a guilty verdict against the U.S.S.R. on the issue of compliance, the prospects for the Shultz-Gromyko meeting and future negotiations and agreements may be bleaker than ever. The Soviets will take the accusations as proof that the U.S. is looking for a pretext to scuttle arms control once and for all, while making the Soviets take the blame. At the same time, Congress and public opinion...
...this detente not only has helped spur the renewal of U.S.-Soviet arms talks but has also produced diplomatic rewards for Britain: on Dec. 15, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev will lead a delegation to Britain. This will be followed next year by a visit from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...