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VIENNA, Austria--OPEC negotiations to clinch an oil price and production pact stalled yesterday amid conflicting signals about the outlook for a final accord...
...treaty would appear to be the Republicans' ideal arms-control pact: a conservative President stuck to his guns for six years, until the Soviet Union finally agreed to eliminate an entire category of nuclear missiles. Yet as Ronald Reagan sits down with Mikhail Gorbachev this week to sign their ) precedent-setting treaty, he has the wholehearted support of only one of the six Republican presidential candidates: Vice President George Bush...
...Democratic candidates, who all back the INF pact, have been quick to capitalize on the Republican dissension. Albert Gore went after the G.O.P. in the opening minutes of last week's debate. "It's nothing short of appalling," he declared, "that five of six Republican candidates refuse to support the new arms-control agreement." The next night Michael Dukakis painted the treaty opponents as captives of ultraconservative ideologues: "Do we need any further proof that the radical right has a stranglehold on the Republican Party?" As conservatives snipe at the White House, Democrats can say with a smile that they...
...Gorbachev ended his first visit to the United States and headed towards East Berlin for talks with Warsaw Pact allies, Reagan addressed the nation from the Oval Office. He said they had made "dramatic movement" on arms control and vowing to press ahead with his Star Wars program...
Gorbachev acknowledged the ABM treaty permitsresearch and development and "if necessary, tests"authorized by the pact. He said there was progressin setting the individual categories of nuclearweapons each side would retain after cuts ofapproximately 50 percent in each side's arsenals...