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...Most important, the summit was not a failure but, in its way, an astonishing success. It brought the world to the brink of a deal that seemed unimaginable before Reagan and Gorbachev arrived in Iceland: destruction of all intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe and a radical reduction of their number in Soviet Asia; a 50% slash in the superpowers' long-range ballistic missiles in five years and their total elimination after five more -- to name only the most striking elements of the bargain that was almost struck. Now that these proposals have been made, the U.S. says they cannot...
...week's end the Administration had reason to believe that its publicity campaign was paying off. In a poll for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 45% of the respondents thought Gorbachev was primarily to blame for the failure to reach agreement at the Iceland summit, while only 14% said Reagan was mainly at fault. A thumping 69% said the President was right in refusing to restrict Star Wars as the price for a deal that would reduce nuclear arms. Day-to-day surveys taken for the White House by Richard Wirthlin showed Reagan's general approval rating jumping sharply from...
...record that it would. Not all experts agree, but at the very least the ten-year proposal would give the Soviets more of a chance to catch up with U.S. technology. Are both sides absolutely clear on just what it was that they almost agreed to in Iceland -- specifically, would the near-deal on strategic weapons have eliminated only ballistic missiles or bombers and cruise missiles too? In either case, should the deal be revived, how would the Administration defend the U.S. and its allies against an overwhelming Soviet superiority in conventional arms without a nuclear deterrent? Shorter range...
...official said the two governments had evidently accepted the concept of "parity" in their diplomatic complements and should move on to arms control and other issues pursued by President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, at the Iceland summit two weeks...
Although Petersen met with Thatcher right on the heels of the "nonsummit summit" in Iceland, she still spent a full hour talking about business with him, he said...