Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the long-closed rooms of Soviet public life. In September he managed to trump Washington when the KGB released U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff in exchange for a proven spy. Just two weeks later, Gorbachev again seemed to outmaneuver President Reagan at their unofficial summit in Iceland. The two leaders came closer than ever before to an agreement on nuclear arms, then ended up back where they started...
Most of us are aware that the sticking point at the Iceland summit was whether the U.S. would be allowed to deploy a space-based laser "defense" within the next 10 years. Reagan chided Soviet leader Gorbachev for his fears regarding SDI, asking, "What do the Soviets have to fear? SDI is simply an insurance policy for the United States." However, five recent studies--conducted in the U.S., West Germany and the Soviet Union--suggest otherwise...
...phrase "Reagan is not a detail man" is a mantra among Reaganites and suggests that he sees the big picture, that "details" are for smaller minds. Yet such detachment can prove dangerous. In preparation for the Iceland summit, Reagan did not study the history and nuances of America's arms-control strategies; instead he practiced ways to sell Gorbachev on SDI. To get himself into the right frame of mind, he read Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, a potboiler about a non-nuclear war between NATO and the Soviet bloc. On a political trip the day before he left...
...their echoes from the Watergate era. That little secret everyone shared about the President -- that he is oblivious to the nuances of his policies, out of touch with the daily operation of Government and blithely detached from distracting bits of fact -- has begun to seem, in the wake of Iceland and Iran and Nicaragua, to be far more dangerous than bemusing...
...Along with the failure of the ReaganAdministration at Iceland, this crisis deals ahideous body blow to European enthusiasm forAmerican leadership," said Dillon Professor of theCivilization of France Stanley H. Hoffmann...