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Reagan's instructions are much briefer in the two sets of discussions on offensive weapons at Geneva: the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which deal with intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which cover medium-range missiles. The instructions are also broader than those given in the past in terms of bargaining flexibility, introducing a concept called "ultimate outcomes." Under it, strategists in Washington decide on the overall goals for reducing weapons levels but allow the negotiators in Geneva, under the direction of Kampelman, considerable maneuvering room on how to achieve them. Said McFarlane: "Never...
...meeting between Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, the Soviets agreed to a broader agenda. In addition to addressing the Star Wars issue, the new arms negotiations will reopen the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), which centered on Europe-based nuclear missiles. While not ruling out Star Wars as a matter for discussion, Reagan has said publicly that it is not a bargaining chip to be traded away for progress on other issues. That is an understandable stipulation: whether or not Reagan would be willing to negotiate Star Wars...
...aides and advisers, divided into a trio of subgroups coinciding with the three negotiating areas. Besides Kampelman, who will be chief negotiator and preside at the U.S. side on Star Wars discussions, the other key arms envoys are former Senator John Tower (START) and Career Diplomat Maynard Glitman (INF). Kampelman declined to estimate the length of the new negotiations. His view: "We must be prepared to stay at the negotiating table one day longer than the Soviets...
They opened the night with a fun dance called "Concerto inF." choreographed by Billy Wilson with music by George Gershwin. Though music by George Gershwin. Thoush somewhat reminiscent of the dance seenes in West Side Story. "Concerto in F" merges the abstract with the thematic. It captures the feeling of deadly confrontation, speed, flight and emergency. Pairs, trios and groups run on and off stage turning and leaping with immaculate sharpness...
...testing stage, such as the MX missile, antisatellite weapons and perhaps eventually some of the more exotic components of the Star Wars antimissile program. As Nitze confirmed to TIME last week, the Administration's approach to the new negotiations "is consistent with the position we took in START and INF (the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces talks on Euromissiles...