Word: moscow
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...they were again, putting two very human faces on the most dangerous rivalry in history, personalizing the complex issues involved. It was their second meeting in less than a year, and it was intended to provide what the Soviet leader called an "impulse" for future meetings in Washington and Moscow. Though they clashed in Reykjavik over Star Wars, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan still might end up encountering each other more frequently than Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev did during the heyday of détente...
...stood for. He wanted the U.S. to negotiate less and compete more. He devoted much of his first term to denouncing the Soviets for their misdeeds, calling on the free world to mount a "crusade" to cast Marxism-Leninism onto the ash heap of history, punishing Moscow's expansionism through a global counterattack on its clients, which became known as the Reagan Doctrine, and unveiling a Strategic Defense Initiative that would, at least as he conceived it, disarm the Evil Empire by dint of Yankee ingenuity...
...Soviets insisted in Iceland that the treaty be "strengthened" to confine SDI research to the science lab. The first official statement that this was the Soviets' goal came in Gorbachev's interview with TIME in August of last year, when the Soviet leader said Moscow would not object to "fundamental research" on new space weapons. In the end, his definition of permissible research could not be reconciled with Reagan's plans to push ahead with...
...Union or the development of missiles by another country. American officials also came to believe by late Sunday evening that the Soviet Union was not wholly sincere in its sweeping proposals; they began to seem more like a ploy to force the end of SDI. Indeed, the fact that Moscow would scrap the potential agreements that were reached because of the SDI dispute called into question their own commitment to real arms control. "As we came more and more down to the final stages," said a somber Shultz Sunday evening, "it became more and more clear that the Soviet Union...
...President was lunching on baked halibut in the residence on Friday, discussing arms control with top advisers, when Gorbachev's Ilyushin-62 jet arrived from Moscow--at the same time as the ceremonial opening of Iceland's parliament. It was bad advance work by Moscow, for it meant that neither Iceland's President nor Prime Minister could be there to greet the Soviet leader. He and his wife Raisa were met instead by Foreign Minister Matthias Matthiesen. "We told Moscow about the opening of the parliament," lamented a Soviet embassy vice-consul, "but they decided it was too late...