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...penthouse of the Geneva office of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Rowny made it clear that he did not expect an instant da from the Soviets. "The President wanted to know if I needed some leather pants to be patient," he quipped. "I told him no. Karpov, like his namesake [World Champion Anatoli Karpov], plays chess. We in the West like to play Pac-Man. We like to see instant results, but it's not going to be that way." Indeed, the differences between the two sides-some left over from past negotiations...
Thus Rowny personifies the Administration's repudiation of the past. By contrast, Karpov, 53, headed the Soviet negotiating team during the final months of SALT II and was proudly present during the ceremony in Vienna. He represents Brezhnev's determination to "preserve what is positive that has already been accomplished...
...leaving SALT in place as what the Administration calls an "interim measure" is one thing. Resurrecting it as a basis for the Rowny-Karpov talks is quite another. Both literally and figuratively, Reagan has changed the name of the game. He has rechristened the negotiations START, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, as a somewhat artificial way to distinguish his Administration's goals from those of its predecessor. The Soviets profess to share the desire for reductions; they have even added the word to the Russian designation of the talks ("Our first concession," says Zamyatin with a wry smile...
...Karpov and his colleagues went to Geneva last week with instructions to reject in the strongest terms the propositions on which the President's START proposal is based. But the Reaganauts are not likely to abandon their proposal so quickly as the Carterites did in 1977 when their own deep-cuts plan was rudely thrown back in Cyrus Vance's face. This Administration is ready, if not eager, to engage in some serious, protracted stonewalling of its own at the disarmament talks in Geneva while it sells the American public on the need for massive rearmament...
...delegations settle into the slogging routine of biweekly meetings and more frequent, less formal conversations, they will first be probing each other for potential areas of flexibility. If Karpov tables a counterproposal, the Reagan Administration will face some hard choices. What if the Soviets are willing to cut their land-based warheads, but not so deeply as the U.S. wants? Will they do so only in exchange for the U.S. giving up the MX or some other system under development? And is the Administration willing to link START and the negotiations on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) that are already under...