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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comply with previous agreements." While Kemp called for unrealistically stringent verification procedures, Robertson's conditions for signing an arms accord seemed even more fanciful: he glibly recommended "a rollback, a decolonization, if you will, of the Soviet empire." Du Pont was a bit more temperate. Though he said the INF deal was a "bad treaty," his main concern is to forestall Soviet attempts to block the Strategic Defense Initiative...
Most observers believe that when the INF treaty comes before the Senate for ratification, Minority Leader Dole will vote for it. In the meantime, Dole is hedging. For weeks he has said he will reserve judgment until he has a chance to read the agreement. That evasion appears a bit specious because, as a prominent Senator, Dole could be briefed on every facet of the accord. His waiting game is intended to show voters, particularly those on the right, that he is no pushover for either Moscow or the White House...
...caviling on the part of his would-be heirs has peeved Reagan. In his interview with television anchormen, the President said that conservative disapproval of the INF agreement was "based on a lack of knowledge." Then he offered a surprisingly harsh assessment of his opponents' motives: "Those people, basically, down in their deepest thoughts, have accepted that war is inevitable...
...Democratic candidates, who all back the INF pact, have been quick to capitalize on the Republican dissension. Albert Gore went after the G.O.P. in the opening minutes of last week's debate. "It's nothing short of appalling," he declared, "that five of six Republican candidates refuse to support the new arms-control agreement." The next night Michael Dukakis painted the treaty opponents as captives of ultraconservative ideologues: "Do we need any further proof that the radical right has a stranglehold on the Republican Party?" As conservatives snipe at the White House, Democrats can say with a smile that they...
...Sovietologist on the staff of the National Security Council, Jack Matlock (who is now U.S. Ambassador to Moscow), favored the zero option but cautioned against euphoria. Gorbachev's latest tactic, he told colleagues, "might be a breakthrough in the negotiations, but it would also achieve & the elimination of American INF missiles in Europe...