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The Pentagon's Richard Perle was idling in southern France and the State Department's Paul Nitze was relaxing in Maine when the call came. This week these two polar opposites within the U.S. arms-control apparatus voyage to Moscow as part of a high-level mission to explain President...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his anti-arms control alter ego Richard Perle fought hard against the modest concessions on offensive weapons ^ and even harder against any concession on SDI. "Anything that gives up strategic defense would be undesirable in every way," Weinberger insisted last week. Even if the...
"Because of the President's personal commitment to the program," explains Talbott, "many sources of SDI stories had been willing to speak to the press only on background. We were determined to have our session on the record. One way to accomplish that was to invite the highest-ranking, most...
The get-together produced illuminating sparks. Says Senior Editor Walter Isaacson: "Even within the Administration, there is still not a clear idea of what SDI is supposed to do." Indeed, forthright statements from Perle and Nitze defined basic disagreements over Star Wars among the President's men. Says Talbott: "It...
The book auction also got a rise out of Georgia's Sam Nunn, top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Ethics laws ban federal officials from using their office for private gain, and Nunn complained that Perle's proposal was a convenient fiction designed to cash in on his...