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...Reagan tried to speak, Gorbachev interrupted, "Please answer me, Mr. President. What is your answer?" Again Reagan began to reply; again Gorbachev angrily insisted, "Answer my simple question...
...Finally, Reagan was able to utter a reply: "I cannot say to the American people that I could take you at your word if you don't believe...
...Reagan and Gorbachev met at the summit last week, the eleventh such meeting between the U.S. and Soviet leaders in the past three decades, they knew, and reminded each other, that there can be no winners in a nuclear war. For two days, as the world warily watched, the two men groped for some kind of human understanding, some way to master the nuclear riddle. Meeting face to face for the first time, Reagan and Gorbachev tried to set some rules to contain the arms race, some guidelines to rein in their rivalries...
...agreement actually signed by the two superpowers at the concluding ceremony on Thursday will re-establish educational, scientific, cultural and athletic exchanges that were dropped by President Carter when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Reagan has expressed the hope that such "people-to-people" communication will lead to better understanding between East and West...
...lack of specifics, both sides pronounced themselves satisfied with the summit, and Reagan and Gorbachev toasted peace, their staffs and each other farewell with a glass of champagne. Before heading off to brief the heads of the Soviets' East bloc satellites, assembled in Prague, Gorbachev managed to get in a few parting propaganda points at an unusual 1½-hour press conference. He sternly warned that "all restraint will be blown to the winds" in nuclear competition unless the U.S. pulls back from its antimissile defense efforts...