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...just set a ceiling on -- the number of nuclear weapons. At the U.N. last week, Reagan and Shevardnadze raised hopes for a quick agreement; in ( Geneva, Soviet and American negotiators are close to filling in some key numbers. The emerging deal: the Soviets would drop their insistence that any INF accord be linked to ones involving long-range strategic arms and space- based defensive weapons; INF warheads in Europe would be slashed to a "token" 100 on each side, representing a cut of more than 85% in the number of Soviet SS-20s now threatening U.S. allies...
...decided, it appears, to work around that challenge rather than meet it head on. Gorbachev seems to have learned a lesson from the Great Euromissile Debate of 1983. The Soviet Union was dead set against the deployment in Western Europe of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), which were intended to offset Soviet SS-20 rockets already in place. Moscow pronounced the new U.S. weapons unacceptable and subordinated all other East-West business to a test of wills with Washington on that one issue. American steadfastness and NATO solidarity turned out to be stronger than Soviet bullying. When...
...public relations defensive with a headline-grabbing scheme to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth by the year 2000. While the proposal was as cynical as it was utopian, it included an intriguing and far more practical offer that eases the terms for an INF deal...
...from Europe. The U.S., on the other hand, would have to withdraw all its missiles from Europe, and the British and French would be forced to cancel plans to upgrade theirs. Then last month Gorbachev told Kennedy that contrary to earlier warnings, "there are no preconditions" to an INF agreement. The Soviet leader indicated that he and Reagan could sign an interim arms-control agreement at their expected summit later this year, regardless of a continuing impasse over Star Wars and strategic offensive weapons. The concession is almost certainly tactical. It does not mean Gorbachev is resigned to the inevitability...
...West with proposals of all kinds, Gorbachev is raising expectations in the West for this year's $ summit. If those high hopes are dashed, Reagan is likely to get the blame. The White House seems to be aware of the danger. Last week Reagan unveiled a counteroffer on INF that exempts Britain and France from restricting their forces and moves toward compromise on other sticking points. There is still hard negotiating ahead, and Gorbachev last week warned that there must be "concrete progress" on arms control for a summit to be worthwhile. For him, it was a tactical ploy: having...