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...William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, voiced the hope that Gorbachev's hint about accepting some research was a "beginning" and an "invitation to negotiation." Hyland's advice: when arms-control talks resume in Geneva next week, Chief U.S. Negotiator Max Kampelman should "take (Soviet Delegation Chief Victor) Karpov aside and say he is intrigued and wants to know more about...
Despite its subtle elegance, world-championship chess ranks among the most soporific of all spectator sports. Take the inconclusive contest between reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov, 34, and fellow Soviet Grand Master Gary Kasparov, 22, that ended abruptly last February. Victory was to have gone to the first player to win six games. But 48 grueling confrontations, held over five long months, produced just five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov and an astonishing 40 draws. World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes finally halted the match, explaining, some thought lamely, that the players were exhausted. But no one nodded...
...total ban on all such research. Gorbachev, by contrast, says the U.S.S.R. might be willing to permit "fundamental" research and restrict the ban to what he calls the "design" stage of space weapons. Much remains to be clarified and negotiated, but because of what their leader has told TIME, Karpov & Co. will now almost certainly have to soften their hard line somewhat on that potentially key issue...
Thus Gorbachev makes clear that for all his misgivings, he still wants very much to go to Geneva to meet Reagan--not to compare what Reagan called "evidence" of each side's geopolitical righteousness but to talk turkey in the sense Karpov meant. And if he is as effective in his one-on-one sessions with the American President in November as he was in his first prolonged encounter with the Western press last week, the summit may yet yield some promising results...
...second six-week phase of the arms-control talks began in midweek, Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, said that he had returned from Washington armed with "negotiating flexibility"; his Soviet counterpart, Viktor Karpov, described himself as a "practical optimist." Nonetheless, the prognosis for progress was gloomy. Reagan shows no inclination to back down on Star Wars. Indeed, two U.S. arms-control officials suggested last week that the 1972 antiballistic-missile treaty might have to be revised to accommodate space technologies. As Brandt said after his Moscow visit, "It will be very, very difficult to find a common denominator...