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...other appearances, both women acquitted themselves well. Raisa Gorbachev remained unflustered when heckled loudly by a Soviet émigré outside the Geneva city hall. Nancy Reagan momentarily lost her train of thought while conversing with addicts at a drug treatment center but recovered and launched into a warm pep talk. In a joint appearance at a Red Cross ceremony, Nancy Reagan carefully read a prepared speech; Raisa Gorbachev had largely memorized hers, impressing the audience with the resulting sincere eye contact. At a second tea party, this one given by an increasingly confident Raisa Gorbachev at the Soviet mission...
...readers would not understand "throw-weights or what is happening in Afghanistan or what is happening in human rights. Most women . . . would rather read the human-interest stuff of what happened." The remarks predictably infuriated feminists and provided news-starved journalists with a few stories. When reporters asked Nancy Reagan if women understood substantive issues, she coolly replied, "I'm sure they do." Even Mikhail Gorbachev leaped in with a politic comment: "Men and women . . . all over the world are interested in having peace and being sure that peace would be kept stable and lasting." In an ironic twist...
Some of the U.S. officials who came to Geneva with Reagan had hoped the final document would include another reaffirmation, that of the antiballistic-missile (ABM) treaty of 1972. Advocates of arms control within the Administration want to seize every opportunity to commit the U.S. to keeping SDI within the bounds of that treaty. Doing so, they hope, might allay Soviet concerns and induce concessions. Why was there no mention of the ABM treaty in the joint statement...
...deep is Reagan's commitment to SDI that there was a wrangle among the Americans over whether to include the seemingly innocuous reference to the January communiqué. The reason: that earlier document proclaimed the objective of "preventing an arms race in space," and Reagan has never liked that phrase because it sounds like an aspersion...
...While Reagan and Gorbachev seem not to have succeeded in cutting any of the knots in arms control, they may have bought some more time for their negotiators to continue trying to unravel the strings. Here is where the symbolic success, and the resulting improvement in atmosphere, can be important. Now that the two smiling leaders have displayed so publicly their determination to pursue arms control, it is harder to imagine their more hard-line advisers' scuttling the process. Just as Reagan has his hawks who would like to see SDI provide a pretext for abandoning past agreements and blocking...