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...majority believes the President is more committed to arms control than is the Soviet leader. Most agree with Reagan that SDI should be developed. Apparently, most do not see SDI as a stumbling block to future negotiations; a majority is optimistic that Reagan and Gorbachev will eventually sign a pact. Significantly, confidence in Reagan's ability to negotiate an arms-control agreement has nearly doubled since a year ago. Those rosy results for Reagan might even help a candidate or two come November. Asked if they were more likely or less likely to vote for a % candidate who favors Star...
...THUNDEROUS world applause Neville Chamberlain walked away from a summit conference in Munich with Adolph Hitler, having reached a non-aggression pact with the threatening Nazi power. He was hailed in Britain and across Europe as a diplomat of unsurpassed greatness, one who could bargain with and control even the world's greatest menace without risking the atrocities of the first world...
...effort to clinch the deal by last Tuesday's deadline, the Reagan Administration had agreed in August to subsidize the wheat, but it was not enough to keep the Soviets from going to competing suppliers. Two days after letting the U.S. deal lapse, Moscow signed a five-year pact to buy at least 25 million tons of Canadian grain...
...hope of both leaders is that in Iceland they can agree on the general outlines for an accord that would drastically reduce INF (intermediate-range nuclear forces) missiles and warheads. Diplomats would then try to put a pact in shape for the leaders to sign if and when they eventually meet in the U.S. That does seem possible; negotiators in Geneva have come close to accord on the basic numbers. But an INF pact is far from assured. Though Moscow no longer insists that one be linked to a reduction on long-range strategic weapons and a ban on space...
This was a striking indictment. "Are you saying that the Disney Corporation has made an evil pact with a weak and despicable American press establishment...