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...Washington's view, the timing could hardly have been coincidental. Only weeks before President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev were to meet in Geneva to discuss arms-control proposals, Moscow seemed to be stepping up its controversial arms shipments to Nicaragua. Said a high-ranking U.S. National Security Council official: "They are conveying a message to their allies that while they will be talking to us, they will not drop their friends...
...disturbing series of events began last week when an anonymous telephone caller claimed that Americans held hostage by the extremist Islamic Jihad in Lebanon would be executed. The next day a bundle of letters was delivered to the Associated Press office in Beirut. One was addressed to President Reagan and signed by four of the six missing Americans. That seemed to confirm that the four--A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, a Catholic priest; Agriculturist Thomas Sutherland; and David Jacobsen, director of the American University hospital in Beirut--were still alive. Two others, Diplomat William Buckley and Librarian...
...Wednesday night it will all be over. Ronald Reagan will be packing to leave for Brussels to report to NATO allies, then will hurry on to Washington to address a joint session of Congress that will be televised to a waiting nation. Mikhail Gorbachev will be getting ready to head back to the halls of the Kremlin, where he will weigh his impressions of the American leader. Soviet officials, newly savvy about influencing public opinion, and American officials, veterans in the art, will be struggling to put the proper spin on what took place in the first encounter between their...
...hoopla, the most important moment in Geneva was likely to have been the most personal and private one. On Tuesday morning at 10:05, shortly after meeting for the first time, Reagan and Gorbachev were scheduled to excuse themselves from the ceremonial opening din and sit down together in a tranquil room in the villa Fleur d'Eau with only their interpreters. No battalions of advisers, no swarms of reporters. Alone in the room with just their wits and their heavy sense of responsibility. That is when, in all likelihood, the full wonder of the moment will have most powerfully...
...there is in this world a craving for peace that will not die. Almost against their wills, Gorbachev and Reagan have been pulled and poked toward the summit. "I don't underestimate the difficulty of the task ahead," the President said in a televised address last week, recounting the problems his predecessors faced. "But these sad chapters do not relieve me of the obligation to try to make this a safer, better world." He proposed an expanded program of "people-to-people exchanges," spoke of "a historic opportunity" to change the course of Soviet-American relations, and dubbed his trip...