Word: postsummit
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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What triggered Reagan's hard-line decision, according to White House aides, was a postsummit statement in an interview in which France's Mitterrand echoed European-wide opposition to waging any kind of "economic war" against the Soviets. To an irritated Reagan, it suddenly seemed that any semblance of an understanding at Versailles had been downgraded. Moreover, the Polish government has not lifted martial law, which was the original cause for the sanctions. The U.S. has never clearly spelled out what had to happen in Poland before the sanctions could be lifted. Said one State Department official...