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...discussions: strategic arms reduction talks (START), which involve intercontinental ballistic missiles; intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), which focus on European-based nuclear weaponry; and space weapons, dominated by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called Star Wars. To the discouragement of U.S. negotiators, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov opened with demands that were unchanged from the last set of talks, which ended in late 1983 with Soviet walkouts. These included a proposal for long- range missiles that Washington contends is unresponsive to a U.S. offer to trade off Soviet and American strategic advantages evenly. The U.S. also objects...
...least a footnote in history: in this modest, comfortably decorated chamber at the Soviet mission in Geneva, 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...
...second session, held two days later at the U.S. mission, lasted just under two hours. It consisted mostly of exchanges of credentials and statements of position. Unlike the first session, the second involved Karpov's principal associates, Yuli Kvitsinsky and Alexei Obukhov. The two had sat out the opening meeting, apparently to underscore the Soviet position that the three "baskets" of arms issues under consideration must be resolved together...
Glitman and Obukhov will be the point men on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which deal mostly with weapons deployed in Europe. Tower and Karpov will square off over intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Kvitsinsky and Kampelman will confront each other on the touchiest issue in the negotiations, space weapons. The Soviets hope to knock out President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, while it is still in the research stage. The overall American posture, by contrast, is to reduce existing offensive weapons and worry at a later date about placing...
Both sides were adroit enough at small talk to placate the headline-hungry press. In a lively, candid meeting with reporters before the first session, Karpov acknowledged that Mikhail Gorbachev was demonstrating leadership even before Chernenko died. Said Karpov: "He presided over the meeting of the Politburo that approved (my) instructions." Karpov ducked, however, a follow- up question on whether Chernenko had been expected to remain alive throughout | the talks. The Soviets ushered photographers gracefully into and out of the opening of their session. The U.S., by contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three...