Word: kampelman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of the negotiating had taken place before the 1979 SALT II agreement. It seemed a fitting place to step into after the warm if formal greeting offered last week by Victor Karpov, the chief Soviet negotiator for a new round of arms talks, to his U.S. counterparts, Max Kampelman, John Tower and Maynard Glitman. Before Karpov waved the Americans in, he said to Kampelman, the leader: "I hope that our meeting will not be the last one but one of the first in a series, that we will negotiate and reach an agreement." Responded Kampelman, smiling widely but speaking...
...Kampelman, the Washington attorney who is leading the American side in the space-weapons talks, was given a dozen pages of talking points that spell out the Administration's general views on the relationship between offense and defense. He will outline "worrisome" trends in the strategic balance between the superpowers, which the U.S. feels was knocked out of kilter by increased Soviet deployments of multiwarhead land missiles. He will air American concerns about the potential upgrading of Soviet air-defense systems. He will also share U.S. ideas about how emerging weapons technologies like laser beams and other "directed energy" might...
...medium-range missiles. The instructions are also broader than those given in the past in terms of bargaining flexibility, introducing a concept called "ultimate outcomes." Under it, strategists in Washington decide on the overall goals for reducing weapons levels but allow the negotiators in Geneva, under the direction of Kampelman, considerable maneuvering room on how to achieve them. Said McFarlane: "Never have I seen instructions with a greater latitude for dynamic negotiation...
...negotiating team arrived in Geneva aboard a military jet early Saturday, and in brief arrival remarks, Kampelman pledged that Washington is ready to "help build a bridge" across the arms chasm. Observers expect the & first meetings in the new round of arms negotiations to last several weeks, followed by several more of recess for home consultations in Washington and Moscow. Few observers dared to speculate much beyond that. Predicted Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt: "Geneva is really going to test the patience of the American people." Reagan sounded the same cautionary note, but then, typically, the Gipper found...
...strategic and intermediate-range--with all these questions considered and resolved in their interrelationship." The Soviets maintain that the prospect of Star Wars has transformed the debate about the future of the strategic relationship and that it now dominates the agenda for arms ! control. On that much, at least, Kampelman and Karpov can agree. So can Ronald Reagan...