Word: inf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of this is yet guaranteed. In addition to the remaining complications surrounding Daniloff's release, there are disputes over details of any INF pact -- both with Moscow and among the warring factions of the Reagan Administration. The freeing of Daniloff, even if followed by an INF deal, would leave the U.S. and U.S.S.R. still at odds over more crucial issues, most notably strategic-arms reductions (START) and Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars...
From what the superpowers were saying in public, even an interim INF deal would have seemed elusive as recently as two weeks ago. When they first met in Geneva last November, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed on the spot to hold two more summits: one in the U.S. this year, the other in the Soviet Union in 1987. But through most of early 1986 the two leaders appeared less eager to fulfill that commitment than to pin the blame on each other for trying to wiggle out of it. Gorbachev annoyed the U.S. by unveiling a series of grandiose arms-control...
...stern American lectures about Daniloff, neither Reagan nor Shultz let the dispute prevent progress on arms control. Shevardnadze handed Reagan a personal letter from Gorbachev replying to arms- control proposals the President had made in July. The Soviet Foreign Minister also hinted at further concessions toward an INF agreement. He and Shultz wound up their meetings expressing unexpected optimism about prospects for a summit and an INF accord -- if only the Daniloff issue could somehow be resolved...
...General Assembly last week, both sides proclaimed these conclusions publicly. After insisting that Daniloff was an "innocent hostage," Reagan went on to say the Geneva talks held out the hope that the "ice of the negotiating stalemate could break." The U.S., he said, "is prepared to conclude an interim (INF) agreement without delay." The President did not mention a summit, but Shevardnadze filled in that gap the next day. The key passage in his speech: "Lately, encouraging outlines of meaningful agreements have been emerging. A summit meeting is also a realistic possibility. We could move forward rather smoothly, if that...
...kind: he might suffer a heavy propaganda defeat if he refused to go to a summit, but he has vowed repeatedly not to be put off again with a smile and a handshake as he was in Geneva. In recent days the Soviets seem to have seized on an INF agreement as an excuse rather than a precondition for a summit. When one American journalist remarked on the difficulties of separating an INF pact from the negotiations on long-range strategic weapons and Star Wars, a high Soviet official replied in an almost plaintive tone, "Yes, but we need something...