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...advisers have been doing for weeks, Reagan played down hopes that the summit would produce a major breakthrough in arms control. Now that summits are media extravaganzas, somewhat like presidential primaries, manipulating expectations is part of the walk-up. The Reagan Administration's official line was one of "tactical pessimism." The idea was to explain away in advance any failure to reach substantive accords as the fault of a new Soviet leader who, for all his pretense to the role of Great Communicator, is in fact just another dogmatic Kremlin apparatchik. For their part, the Soviets engaged in similar...
...awesome responsibility that faced Reagan and Gorbachev was to withdraw from this distressing clamor and, in those quiet moments by themselves, search for some genuine gesture from each other. For the good of mankind. It did not matter if it was just a look or a word; it could be a start toward something much larger. --By Hugh Sidey
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, large numbers of Americans shared his determination to build up U.S. armaments and take a hard stance against Soviet expansionism. But as Reagan prepared for this week's meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, a TIME poll showed more support for reaching an accommodation with the Soviet Union than at any other time during his presidency. The U.S. public strongly favors making significant progress in talks with the Soviets, particularly on nuclear arms control, even while it is dubious about any likely success. Alkthough a majority of Americans favor development of the President...
More surprising are public doubts about the popular Reagan. Only 30% think the President emphasizes arms control over expansion of our nuclear arsenal, although 79% personally favor that position. Fully 50% of those surveyed believe Reagan is determined to build up America's supply of nuclear weapons, but only 12% find that a good idea. Indeed, by 25% to 21%, more voters believe Reagan's nuclear policies increase rather than decrease the threat of war. (A remarkable 46% think those policies have no effect either...
...poll results underscore a remarkable anomaly in the public's reaction to Reagan, whose lusty 62% positive job-performance rating remains near its historic high. Even though the national economy has just completed three years of expansion, only 27% of respondents believe they are better off economically under Reagan, while 28% think their economic situation has deteriorated. Concern over the swollen federal deficit and U.S. economic health continue to rank first and second among problems facing the country, well ahead of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war. Yet, despite their reservations about the President's hawkish summit...