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...crisis intensified Europe's growing feeling that it must join together to assert its strategic interests in superpower negotiations. Since the summit at Reykjavik, where the Europeans were horrified to see Reagan come close to abolishing their nuclear umbrella, calls for greater European security cooperation have been increasing. The most powerful statement came two weeks ago, when French Premier Jacques Chirac proposed a new European security agreement to ensure a strong nuclear deterrent on the Continent. In addition, since Reykjavik, European leaders have relied even more on their long-standing system of informal contacts among top aides to help formulate...
This damage control method is the teflon of our "teflon President." Reagan has played the same game in every major political scrape throughout his Administration. He used it after the breakdown of the Reykjavik summit, after the Libyan disinformation scandal and during the coming to power of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Reagan has applied this method to the Iran crisis in an effort to regain his stature. But this time the damage control has failed. The media has so far sustained its onslaught...
...President has given us several different versions of what happened at the Reykjavik "summit." The President insists that when this country exchanged American journalist Nicholas Daniloff for an alleged Soviet spy, we weren't "swapping...
...move would bolster Soviet charges that the U.S. was intent on scuttling arms-control negotiations. Indeed, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev hinted as much during his visit to India last week, terming the deployment of the B-52 a "major mistake" that called into question the "entire logic of the Reykjavik talks." In Moscow the Foreign Ministry warned that the Soviet Union would be forced to beef up its own nuclear arsenal...
...Star Wars." So said Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a four-day visit to India last week, his first journey to Asia since he took office in March 1985. In a speech before the Indian Parliament, Gorbachev declared that "what the world saw six weeks ago in Reykjavik was not a mirage of a nuclear-free world looming on the horizon, but a reality within reach, which the two sides could attain even tomorrow, if they have the will and act responsibly...