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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major turnaround, particularly in the most important area: the pursuit of a nuclear-arms-control agreement in the coming months. In response to the initial deployment of U.S. missiles in Western Europe at the end of last year, the Soviets walked out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) negotiations and broke off the parallel Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva...
...former aide of Henry Kissinger's who is now at the Brookings Institution, believes that the core questions of nuclear-arms control will have to await a number of other developments. Before it would be prudent for the U.S. to make any adjustments in its negotiating positions in INF or START, he says, the Soviets will have to show flexibility in the talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact on conventional forces that are due to resume in Vienna next month. They should agree to "confidence-building measures," like the ongoing negotiations over upgrading the Moscow-Washington hot line...
...make a breakthrough." He suggested that the U.S. might trade some of its edge in bombers and air-launched cruise missiles for Soviet cutbacks in its lead in heavy land-based missiles. He also indicated that the U.S. might be willing to merge START with the Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) talks, which deal with medium-range missiles in Europe, if the Soviet Union proposed such a move. The next day, however, Richard Burt, the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, dampened hopes by saying that the U.S. had no plans for either the "tradeoff" or the arms-talk merger...
While insisting that "the imperialist" U.S. is "the main threat to peace," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko obliquely indicated that the Soviets might be willing to go along with a merger of START and INF talks. Such a step would allow the Soviets to slide around their vow not to resume INF talks as long as the U.S. was deploying Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. An even more promising feeler came from an unnamed "high-ranking Soviet official," widely assumed to be Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who suggested to the Boston Globe that the two powers seek a quick...
That is why President Reagan should use Andropov's death as a chance to improve the abysmal lack of dialogue between the adversaries. The uncertain power structure in the Kremlin makes it unlikely that the Soviets will differ substantially from their previous negotiating positions in the suspended INF and START talks in Europe. President Reagan, with his usual obstinate confidence, has assured the American public that the no-longer "evil empire" will return to the negotiating table on its knees and with roses in its teeth. But the truth is that the U.S. must make the first move by softening...