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Previously, U.S. negotiators at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva had stressed the zero option: if the Soviet Union scrapped all its medium-range missiles, the U.S. would deploy no missiles at all in Europe. But, said the President, in 16 months of negotiations it has become obvious that the Soviets will not agree to that plan. Thus the U.S. was willing to accept a less ambitious solution on the missiles. Said Reagan: "It would be better to have none than to have some. But if there must be some, it is better to have few than...
...U.S.S.R. The two-hour session was beamed live to the U.S. starting at 2 a.m. Saturday, Eastern time (see box). Gromyko's aim was obviously to keep European nuclear fears high by quashing any hope that Reagan's initiative could lead to a breakthrough in the Geneva INF talks...
...agreement. And he would make the offer general rather than specific. Reagan provided some clues to his thinking in a speech late last week to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. In remarks that were directed specifically against nuclear-freeze proposals, but that also seemed applicable to the INF bargaining, he asserted, "If one side seems too eager or desperate, the other side has no reason to offer a compromise and every reason to hold back, expecting that the more eager side will cave in first...
...Soviet Union has, indeed, been waging a skillful peace offensive depicting the U.S. as the obstacle to progress on arms control at the Intermediate-range Nuclear Force (INF) negotiations and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), both of which are under way in Geneva. In sending Bush to Europe and Secretary of State George Shultz to Japan, China and South Korea, the Administration was trying last week to counter the Soviet p.r. blitz with some salesmanship of its own. The American emissaries carried no fresh initiatives of real substance. Instead, they sought to reassure America's allies with friendly rhetoric...
Moreover, the U.S. intends to begin in stalling 572 new medium-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe later this year. Even though these weapons are on the agenda of the stale mated INF talks, the Soviets consider them a strategic threat, since they can reach into the U.S.S.R. In that sense, INF and START are clearly linked. Thus, as the U.S. position hardens at START, the implications for INF are inauspicious...