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...Reagan arrived at Hofdi house first on Saturday morning to be host at the opening session of the minisummit, coat-less in the strong seaside breeze and carrying a Manila folder. The Gorbachev limousine arrived a minute before schedule. When the General Secretary emerged from his car, Reagan was not at the door to meet him. Gorbachev glanced at his watch. A few seconds passed. As Gorbachev climbed the steps, the door suddenly swung open, and a slightly flustered Reagan stepped out to shake hands. Both looked at their watches, shrugged and smiled for the cameras...
...they posed in a reception area, Gorbachev told Reagan that Icelandic officials "tried to persuade me very convincingly that we must agree on something with you." Joked Gorbachev: "I asked them, 'Have you said the same words to the President when you met him?' and they assured me, 'Yes, in exactly the same words.' " Then the two men retired to small salon, where they were joined by two interpreters and a pair of notetakers...
...Reagan planned to explain once again his general vision of how both sides could phase in strategic defenses while simultaneously cutting offensive weapons in order to achieve a greater "strategic stability." That explanation, Secretary Shultz had hinted earlier in the week, included offering an inducement: any significant cut in offensive missiles could permit a curtailment...
Gorbachev's gambit of reading off a new set of Soviet ideas and proposals caught Reagan by surprise. In Geneva, Gorbachev had spoken off the cuff; by reading from a long paper this time, he gave the impression that he was following detailed guidelines worked out within the Politburo. At the heart of his proposals was the Soviet view that there could be a deep reduction in offensive missiles if the U.S. would postpone SDI development. In a sense, this was a flip side of the State Department position that a sharp reduction in offensive weapons would logically require less...
After talking for 51 minutes, the two leaders invited Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to join them at the rectangular wooden table. When the meeting finished at 12:30, Reagan emerged and told a group of his top aides, "They've got a proposal. But I'm afraid they're going to try to go after SDI." That was when Shultz gathered the top U.S. arms officials to meet in the embassy's secure "bubble" room to revise the President's talking points for the afternoon session...