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...When Max Kampelman of the U.S. and Victor Karpov of the Soviet Union take their seats at a table in Geneva next week, they will be marking the end of a superpower standoff that has lasted for 15 uneasy months. The possessors of the world's two mightiest arsenals of doomsday weapons will once again be formally seeking agreement on ways to control their destructive power. No miracles are expected: nuclear negotiations over the past 22 years have occasionally resulted in limits on future stockpiles, but never in deep reductions of current ones. Yet the U.S. is convinced that...
...delegation in Geneva will number more than 70 aides and advisers, divided into a trio of subgroups coinciding with the three negotiating areas. Besides Kampelman, who will be chief negotiator and preside at the U.S. side on Star Wars discussions, the other key arms envoys are former Senator John Tower (START) and Career Diplomat Maynard Glitman (INF). Kampelman declined to estimate the length of the new negotiations. His view: "We must be prepared to stay at the negotiating table one day longer than the Soviets...
Shultz's reply to Gromyko, which Max Kampelman will echo to Victor Karpov next week, was that the promiscuous Soviet buildup of offensive weapons has created a "strategic environment" in which the U.S., out of simple prudence, must consider an offsetting buildup in defenses. By the Administration's reckoning, it is the U.S.S.R., not the U.S., that has sinned against the once sacred principle...
...safety of both sides and diminish, if not eliminate, the threat of nuclear war altogether. The Administration hopes to convince the Soviets not only to blunt their offensive threat but to join the U.S. in the repudiation of MAD and in the embrace of strategic defenses. The superpowers, Kampelman will tell Karpov, have a mutual interest in gradually moving away from their current reliance on offensive nuclear weapons and letting their arsenals shrink under the benevolent influence of omnipotent antiweapons. That evolution, the U.S. negotiator will say, can be regulated by arms control...
...same time, however, the one prospective system that gives the U.S. the most bargaining leverage--Star Wars--may be unavailable for trade-offs, now or ever. Administration officials, including the President, have been vague about whether and under what circumstances S.D.I. would be negotiable. In Geneva, Kampelman and his colleagues will deliver lectures on the virtues of the U.S. strategic concept. Karpov and his comrades will fulminate against the evils of Star Wars. At the same time, they will probe for some sign that space weapons might be negotiable after...