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...apparent concession, a U.S. official said Gorbachev had dropped his insistence for restrictions on Star Wars testing as a condition for cuts in strategic arsenals. Gorbachev, at a marathon news conference, skirted the question that snagged the Iceland summit last year...
...seems to be the charm for Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Their first encounter in Geneva two years ago was little more than a chance for the leaders of the two superpowers to get to know eachother and produced no tangible results. Their last meeting, last fall in Reykjavik, Iceland, was a disaster. Before his aides interceded, an unprepared and uncomprehending Reagan agreed in principle to the dismantling of the entire American arsenal if only the Soviets acquiesced to his desire to proceed with the Strategic Defense Initiative. Now, one year later, the two will sign a treaty that will...
Gorbachev's insistence on limiting Star Warsresearch and testing led to a stalemate at thesummit in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October...
...summit in Washington, scheduled for Dec8-10, will be the third between the two leaders.They met in Geneva in 1985 and in Reykjavik,Iceland, in 1986, but failed to come to terms onarms control...
Worst of all, an American president may someday end up where Reagan almost tread last October. At the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reagan almost agreed to dramatic cuts in long-range nuclear weapons in exchange for limits on American space defense plans. Regardless of whether one believes in the promise of SDI, the picture of an aging president, unfamiliar with nuclear strategy, in free-form negotiations with the Soviets is a frightening...