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...appeared in public for more than a month), he used the most caustic language hurled at the U.S. by any Soviet leader since the waning cold war days of the 1960s. Andropov in effect not only said nyet to any imminent breakthrough in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Europe but raised questions about future negotiations with Reagan on almost any subject...
While Andropov did not spell out exactly what that "appropriate response" might be, Washington has been rife with speculation that the Soviets might station submarines with nuclear missiles off the U.S. coasts and break off the INF talks. Still, key White House officials, perhaps wishfully, saw Andropov's speech more as an attempt to frighten European populations about the planned U.S. deployment than as an outright rejection of the Reagan proposals. Despite the Soviets' latest psychological offensive, however, the prevailing view among Western Europe's leaders was that the debate over missiles in Europe...
...much difficulty negotiating with Congress, his State Department and the Pentagon as with the Soviets. Some key legislators still threaten to vote against final funding for MX-missile deployment in the U.S. unless the Administration takes a more flexible position in START, as it has now done in INF...
While the shooting down of the aircraft had set back the Soviet Union's "peace offensive" in Europe, Reagan was still under pressure from NATO allies to show more flexibility in the INF talks. He ordered his arms-control negotiators to place a new offer on the table and planned to describe it in an address to the United Nations General Assembly early this week. In a visit to Voice of America headquarters, Reagan turned his usual Saturday radio broadcast into an unusual worldwide pitch for his arms-control proposals. His words were beamed into Asia, Europe and Africa...
Friction over arms control, however, posed an even greater long-term threat to any improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations. The two rivals not only eyed each other across the INF bargaining table but were engaged in a stretch drive to win the support of uneasy Europeans, especially in West Germany. The first nine of a planned force of 108 Pershing II missiles are to be deployed in West Germany on a still undisclosed date in December. Peace groups have scheduled massive demonstrations against the deployment for Oct. 22 in Hamburg, Bonn, Stuttgart and West Berlin...