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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the words, the walkouts. "Everything is finished!" Soviet Negotiator Yuli Kvitsinsky proclaimed, as he stomped out of a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Paul Nitze. Four days later, the U.S.S.R. broke off the Geneva INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) talks on limiting missiles in Europe. The U.S. "would still like to launch a decapitating nuclear first strike," Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, the Soviet armed forces Chief of Staff, charged at a remarkable news conference, as he rapped a long metal pointer against a wall chart showing U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals...
...came a week after Moscow avoided setting a date for the next round of U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva over intercontinental nuclear arsenals and three weeks after the Soviet breakoff, with much threatening fanfare by Yuri Andropov, of the Geneva talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) in Europe. Though the rupture in Vienna was less crucial, it meant that no arms limitation discussions of any kind were under way between the superpowers...
...NATO allies into reversing the deployment of new cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. The odds of Soviet success in that objective are just about nil, since NATO is standing firm in insisting that the Soviets are the ones who must change their INF posture. Nonetheless, at a meeting in Moscow last week with Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Väyrynen, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once again echoed the refrain that the aim of U.S. military policy is to "lord it over other countries," meaning the West Europeans...
...Reagan Administration's response to the START impasse was similar to the one given at the end of the INF talks: an expression of regret and an avowal that the U.S. was willing to continue negotiating. President Reagan stressed the positive by noting that the Soviet maneuver had come at the scheduled end of a normal two-month round of talks. Said Reagan: "This was a regular adjournment . . . I think this is more encouraging than a walkout and simply saying they won't be back." In Geneva, U.S. START Negotiator...
...maneuver days in advance. At an unusual Moscow press conference, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of Staff of the Soviet armed forces, used colored charts and a pointer to illustrate how, in the Soviet view, U.S. proposals at START were moving "in the same direction"-toward breakdown-as the foundered INF negotiations. Ogarkov reiterated the principal Soviet START proposal: a ceiling for both sides of 1,800 "strategic launchers," consisting of intercontinental ballistic missile silos, submarine-launched missile tubes and intercontinental bombers...