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...confident and forceful men last week, they were caught by a stark axiom of the Soviet-American rivalry: neither side can afford to base the security of a nation on trust alone. For 40 years, ever since the earliest days of the cold war, each American President, each Kremlin leader, has felt compelled to counter every move by a countermove, every new weapon with a newer weapon, every show of strength with a greater show of strength. The two hands that control the planet's survival may clasp in a show of summit cordiality, but measurable progress to curtail their...
...aide to Henry Kissinger, the veteran of numerous summits. "These guys don't want to go into a session like this and then have to explain why it was a mistake." Gorbachev, although he appears to have consolidated his power and changed the nature of the way the plodding Kremlin bureaucracy operates, needed to impress the surviving gerontocrats back in Moscow, like Gromyko. "Those guys went to summits with Americans and managed to come home with treaties and agreements--at least with communiqués," says one Moscow-based observer of the Kremlin. "Gorbachev had to show he could...
...attention. Quickly striding from his car, Gorbachev theatrically swept off his black fedora. Reagan came down and grasped the hand of his rival with a firm handshake seen around the world. As both men smiled broadly, the American President, 20 years older and four inches taller than his Kremlin opposite, gently steered his guest inside...
Reagan had been well coached on what to expect from his Kremlin rival. Gorbachev had been forceful and unyielding at his presummit meeting in Moscow two weeks before with Secretary of State George Shultz, and Shultz had passed along to Reagan a vivid description of the Kremlin leader in action: assertive, dynamic, very opinionated and not easily swayed by eloquent rhetoric. Nonetheless, Shultz had counseled, Gorbachev was a good listener, and extremely curious to learn more about the mind-sets of his Western adversaries...
Gorbachev did offer one slight ray of hope on Afghanistan. The Soviets did not want to keep their troops there indefinitely, he declared, hinting that the Kremlin was searching for some kind of political solution...