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...will probably then see if they can tempt the Soviets into deferring the disagreement over Star Wars and cutting a deal on offensive weapons alone. The Soviets have softened their line on some other issues in order to return to the Geneva talks, but the chances are next to nil that they will give up their insistence on linkage between any agreement on offensive weapons and parallel progress in the talks on defense. It was at Soviet insistence that the communique released by Shultz and Gromyko after their January meeting in Geneva said, "The sides agree that the subject...
...nuclear freeze? Some kind of brake on the arms race? Hardly. The latest love in between? Washington and Moscow has about the same chance of breaking into open arms control as did the four years of deep freeze that characterized relations during the first term of the Reagan Administration: nil. All the soothing words enunciated in last week's rush to rapprochement cannot obfuscate the immense underlying obstacles to any meaningful agreement given the current cast of characters in the White House...
...Camp David accords, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis criticized his bosses' efforts in the Middle East. Commenting on the Reagan Administration's September 1982 peace plan, Lewis called the timing of the proposal "abysmal, the tactics of presentation worse, and the outcome, so far, nil...
...talents, large or nil, agreed to nurse...
...roughly equal strength, the potential for a wild and politically bloody convention is great. A divisive floor fight for the nomination would be a disaster for the Democrats and would undoubtedly produce a nominee so wounded by his own party that chances for victory in November would be nil. If the two men seem to be dendlocked in June, the best solution would be the selection of a compromise candidate. Perhaps someone who has already dropped out of the race, or a name that has only briefly been mentioned thus far (Dale Bumpers, Jim Wright, or Mario Cuomo). Anyone nominated...