Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being caught out in such an improbable and embarrassing situation was evident in the scramble of the White House to put a lid on the rapidly expanding story. Whereas only a few weeks ago the Administration had rallied its forces to defend the President's actions at the Iceland summit, virtually blitzing the media with press conferences, interviews and briefings, now there was a chorus of no comments, off-the- record observations, obfuscations and pointed suggestions of self- restraint, even repression of the emerging facts. President Reagan declared that the | disclosures "are making it more difficult...
VIENNA, Austria--High level superpower arms control talks ended bitterly yesterday with the Soviet Union accusing the United States of a "complete retreat" from positions agreed to at the Iceland summit. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said "Star Wars" was still the sticking point...
...accused the U.S. side of a "complete retreat" from the October 11-12 summit meeting in Iceland between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...most complex and fateful issues of the nuclear age? Did Reagan's men let themselves get carried away by the promise of the deal of the century, when they should have been nailing down a more realistic agreement on medium- range missiles? Instead of pulling an all-nighter in Iceland, why didn't the Americans simply say, "We'll get back to you in Geneva or when you come...
Reagan puts great faith in his ability to persuade people through the force of his personality; that is one reason why he accepted the Iceland invitation and why he felt confident about getting into a major bargaining session once there. So, rather than aggressively pursuing a more limited agreement, Reagan and his advisers found themselves scrambling after Gorbachev's vision. The U.S. negotiators pursued a strategy that was in some ways a mirror of the Soviet one: putting together enough tantalizing agreements so that when the decisive moment finally arrived, the other side would be willing to back down...