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...painting the summit as a success, the Administration got an assist from, of all people, Gorbachev. The Soviet leader launched his own spin-doctoring campaign as soon as the summit broke up, dispatching 15 diplomats to 35 countries from Austria to Zimbabwe. On successive days, Max Kampelman and Victor Karpov, the heads of the American and Soviet arms- negotiating teams in Geneva, turned up in Bonn to conduct briefings for the West German government. Tuesday night Gorbachev, like Reagan a day earlier, went on television to give his version of the summit events to his fellow countrymen...
What has been even more hopeful, however, is that there were some initial indications that all was not lost and that some of the proposals might yet be salvaged. Victor Karpov, one of the chief Soviet arms negotiators, has indicated that the Soviet Union was prepared to move ahead with the proposal to destroy all intermediate missile warheads and launchers and leave only 100 in Asia and another 100 in the United States. Unfortunately other Soviet officials have since become more skeptical about such decoupling, but certainly there is reason to be considerably more optimistic about the prospects...
While President Reagan declared in a Baltimore speech, "Let's not look back and place blame," U.S. arms specialists worked on a package of proposals for Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, to present to Viktor Karpov, head of the Soviet delegation in Geneva...
Confirmation of the Soviet signal appeared to come from Bonn, West Germany, where Karpov said his government was ready to talk about removing medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe without linking the issue to Star Wars...
...gala grudge rematch for Soviet Chess Champions Gary Kasparov, 23, the . current world titleholder, and Anatoly Karpov, 35, who reigned from 1975 to 1985. They had played each other a record 72 times in 14 months: a five-month, 48-game marathon that ended without a winner in February 1985, and a second match that finished last November in a smashing 13-11 victory for the brash, high-living Kasparov. Last week they began Round 3 in London, with Games 73, 74 and 75 (all draws). But not before an opening round of press-conference publicity, in which Kasparov, asked...