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There has also been more argument and speculation about the contents of the album than about what happened at the Reykjavik summit. Yes, classics like Born to Run are there, jumping out of a superb audio mix like a Maserati off the mark. But so are Springsteen standards like Thunder Road and No Surrender, performed with newly spare instrumentation, sounding entirely different and stronger than ever. There are tunes Springsteen wrote for other performers that he has never recorded (Fire, Because the Night), as well as songs that he has borrowed from others (This Land Is Your Land, War, Raise...
...officials in Washington and Western Europe concerned last week that the President had come close to accepting a huge Soviet advantage in conventional forces. Administration officials conceded that the Soviets had not seriously misrepresented the President's assent to a sweeping no-nukes proposal from Mikhail Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit. Although it seemed that Reagan might have blundered into this position, White House aides insisted that he had been fully aware of the implications of his bargaining tactics...
There he goes again, his heart talking, way out in front of his mind, tugging at the world's iron realities to see if they might yield to a little soft yearning. Some of that happened in the Reykjavik meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, and it has created a continuing frenzy in Washington, a city that admires ornate theories and prolonged process and is frightened by blurted hope...
...Reykjavik summit ended in deadlock over the Star Wars antimissile program, after Reagan rejected restrictions on testing of it as part of an arms reduction deal...
...arms talks in Vienna, on the periphery of a 35-nation Helsinki review conference, focused on the tentative agreements between Reagan and Gorbachev to reduce nuclear weapons and the dispute over Star Wars, which sidetracked an accord in Reykjavik...