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When the Soviets walked out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Geneva last week, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote the behind-the-scenes history of the negotiations that accompanies this week's cover story, confessed to some pessimism about the course of events. Nevertheless, he is confident that arms control is an unfinished story. Says Talbott: "The interruption of these talks closed an episode, but there will probably be more chapters to come." Talbott has closely followed the labyrinthine plot twists of arms-control negotiations for ten years. He covered the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms...
...statement was clearly designed to lay blame on the U.S. for any failure of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks. It amounted, in the words of one Western diplomat, to a "last-ditch effort" to drive a wedge between NATO governments. On both counts, the Soviet strategy seemed to fall flat. In Washington, President Reagan deftly countered Andropov by challenging the Soviets "to negotiate seriously at Geneva" and vowing that the U.S. "will stay at the negotiating table as long as necessary." NATO defense ministers, meeting last week at the Canadian resort of Château Montebello, near Ottawa...
...part, the U.S. State Department called Andropov's threat to end the INF talks "totally unjustified." Officials also charged that the proposed Soviet concessions did not begin to address the two basic points of contention in Geneva: first, that Moscow refuses to accept the deployment of any new NATO missiles in Europe; second, that the Soviets want "compensation" for the independent nuclear deterrents of Britain and France. The U.S. rejects both positions. The Soviet party chief offered to lower the number of Soviet SS-20s from the current level of 243 to "about 140." Since each...
Andropov also promised, pending an INF agreement, to put an end "to the deployment of SS-20 missiles in the eastern areas of the U.S.S.R." Chief U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli A. Kvitsinsky tentatively agreed to a similar freeze on Soviet missiles aimed at China and Japan during their now famous and repudiated "walk in the woods" in July 1982. But even then, the deal would have left the Soviets with 90 SS-20s in Soviet Asia; today the figure would...
...week's first saber rattle came in Hamburg, where Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin issued the strongest warning yet that Moscow was prepared to pull out of both the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) negotiations and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva if the missiles are deployed. 'We do not want to take part in negotiations leading to a situation in which powerful new missiles and warheads will be stationed in Europe," declared Zamyatin, a close adviser to Soviet President Yuri Andropov and a member of the policy-setting Central Committee. Zamyatin was asked if he meant that...