Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Gorbachev and Reagan almost satisfied each others' demands for an arms control agreement, Kalb said, each agreeing to an eventual elimination of nuclear warheads on both sides, the Iceland summit was unable to reach a settlement...
Redman also sought to assure Moscow that the United States did not want to lose the momentum achieved at President Reagan's summit meeting in Iceland with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...negotiators in Iceland broke off in exhaustion and acrimony over President Reagan's refusal to accept Gorbachev's demand to amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to bar Star Wars research and testing outside the laboratory...
While "there has been no letter from Mr. Gorbachev to the president since Iceland," Regan said, "there have been hints delivered to some of our negotiators that perhaps they could discuss further the SDI and its testing...
...comments by Arbatov, Shultz and Regan reflected a more optimistic outlook expressed by Soviet and U.S. officials in the days since the Iceland meeting broke up with acrimonious finger pointing as each side blamed the other for the impasse...