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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...
This makes Regan a lightning rod for criticism of the Administration when problems erupt. Resting his case on Iran, the Daniloff deal and Reagan's murky conduct at the Iceland summit, conservative Columnist George Will wrote last week: "The aides in close contact with President Reagan today are the least distinguished such group to serve any President in the postwar period." Regan dismisses such sweeping criticisms. But he does bristle at unfavorable comparisons between his White House (and he often sounds as if he believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly...