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...aides attended to last-minute details of Bush's itinerary, the whirlwind of activity over the missiles was already well under way in Europe. In Bonn, Paul Nitze, 76, the chief U.S. negotiator in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva, dropped hints of his own that the Administration was edging away from the zero proposal. After Nitze met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Defense Minister Manfred Wōrner, a senior West German official said: "The word used most often by Nitze was flexibility, with balance spoken more softly afterward...
...arrival in Geneva for the resumption of the INF talks, Nitze declared that the U.S. "was certainly not locked into the zero option," but repeated Reagan's conviction that the plan was "the best way to achieve the peace and security that mankind desires." The silver-haired veteran U.S. negotiator also denounced "recent Soviet propaganda activities" that sought to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its Western European partners. Said Nitze: "The NATO nations cannot be held hostage to nuclear blackmail at the hands of the Soviet Union...
While negotiators smiled and photographers clicked at the reopening of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks last week in Geneva, participants in the city's other continuing arms-control drama, the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, were themselves preparing to return to the negotiating table this week after a two-month recess. START, which deals with long-range nuclear weaponry, is already unique in the history of arms control between the superpowers. Normally, each side makes a tough, deliberately one-sided opening proposal that gradually becomes more equitable and flexible as the give-and-take proceeds. The opposite...
...American and his much younger Soviet counterpart nevertheless knew each other well. For more than eight months, Nitze, 76, and Kvitsinsky, 46, had been assigned to Geneva, meeting twice weekly to negotiate a diminution of both sides' European missile arsenals, the goal of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks. The men met more casually as well. Their final informal meeting before last summer's two-month recess took place on the afternoon of July 16 at a mountainside restaurant near the town of Saint-Cergue, overlooking Geneva. Leaving the lodge, as they strolled together down a forest...
...investment banker. In government since 1940, he oversaw the creation of the Marshall Plan and the NATO Alliance; in the early '60s he helped manage U.S. responses to crises over Berlin and Cuban missiles. Some who know him suggest that Nitze is now driven to achieve an INF treaty as a sort of final professional capstone. Nitze scoffs: "I just don't give that kind of thing any thought. My problem is with the Russians. They're the subject I'm focusing on, with my eyes wide open." No one should doubt that...