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...REYKJAVIK SUMMIT raised hopes about an agreement for the abolition of nuclear weapons, but it appeared to founder on the President's intransigence over his Strategic Defense Initiative. One proposed utopia appeared to defeat another. How should we think about SDI and the long-term future of nuclear deterrence...
...almost as if the Soviets and Americans who met last week in Vienna to pick up where they had left off on arms control at the Iceland summit also decided to mimic the outcome at Reykjavik. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz started the talks with friendly smiles and expressions of hope. Then, two days later, they emerged frustrated, each blaming the other for their failure to break the Reykjavik stalemate. Before Shevardnadze boarded a plane back to Moscow, he said the talks had left him with a "bitter taste." Declared Secretary Shultz...
...chance of a breakthrough dimmed the moment the Soviet team arrived in Vienna. Shevardnadze was not accompanied by the full delegation that had negotiated deep into the night in Iceland. Most conspicuously absent: Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Soviet Chief of Staff and leader of the Reykjavik arms- control team. The first meeting between Shultz and Shevardnadze lasted three hours. From the beginning, the Soviets made it clear that they were not interested in the U.S. goal of defining some areas of agreement, perhaps including the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, or disagreement. Instead, Soviet negotiators hammered away at just...
...went to Vienna hoping to "clarify and confirm," in writing, the agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit. "We wanted to codify the progress made and nail down the remaining problems," said Shultz. The Secretary presented Shevardnadze with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them...
...could see in Reykjavik that it came down to SDI," the President recounted. "I made a proposal to (Gorbachev) that if we got the SDI shield then, with the Soviet Union sharing that, we could eventually sign a treaty to eliminate all ballistic missiles...