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...Soviets' pre-Geneva rhetoric calculated to create soaring expectations. Having promised that his nation would campaign against Star Wars "at the top of its voice," Gromyko did precisely that in person in Western Europe. During a three-day visit to Rome, he reportedly warned Giulio Andreotti, his Italian counterpart, that U.S. renunciation of its space defense plan was "absolutely essential." Moreover, Gromyko's performance in Rome was merely the opening shot in a propaganda campaign against Star Wars that seems likely to grow even shriller than the "peace" campaign of the early '80s, which was aimed at preventing U.S. deployment...
...idea of a nonnuclear defense, practicable or not, has an appeal that will make it difficult for the Kremlin to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies. Though Andreotti told Gromyko that Italy shares Soviet concern about the presence of military weapons in space, he firmly defended the U.S. right to proceed with research on Star Wars technology. Britain and West Germany, while still harboring strong doubts about eventual deployment, have independently grown more interested in the research program's industrial potential; one key West German defense official predicts that it will lead to "a third technological revolution...
When Secretary of State George Shultz met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva on Jan. 7 and 8 to set the ground rules for next week's negotiations, Gromyko repeatedly objected to the description of space weapons as defensive. The term, he said, was meant to "camouflage" the real purpose, which was actually highly offensive in every sense of the word...
...Gromyko asked Shultz to pretend that he was on top of a tower in the Kremlin so that he could see, "objectively," how threatening Star Wars looked from that perspective. Reagan has lamented the unofficial American nickname of S.D.I., insisting that its aims are entirely peaceful, while Soviet spokesmen relish using the literal Russian translation of Star Wars, partly because the phrase includes the word war. Since his meeting with Shultz, Gromyko has continued to heap contempt on the defensive rationale for Star Wars. Mixing his metaphors a bit, he has said that if the U.S. persists with the program...
Shultz's reply to Gromyko, which Max Kampelman will echo to Victor Karpov next week, was that the promiscuous Soviet buildup of offensive weapons has created a "strategic environment" in which the U.S., out of simple prudence, must consider an offsetting buildup in defenses. By the Administration's reckoning, it is the U.S.S.R., not the U.S., that has sinned against the once sacred principle...