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Arms control positions conveyed by Shultz "represent a mixed bag of old mothballed views and approaches," he said. "One cannot avoid the impression that our partners [the Americans] wished to forget Reykjavik as soon as possible...
...their own as Ted Kennedy and 1988 Presidential Hopefuls Gary Hart, Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt to stump for their party's candidates. National figures on both sides are trying to inject some issues into the campaign, stressing the struggle for the Senate and, since the Reykjavik summit, the President's allegiance to the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...Ronald Reagan walk into a sting? Did Mikhail Gorbachev go to Reykjavik with a well-wrought plan designed to put the Soviets in a no-lose situation and the Americans in a no-win one? Or, perhaps, did Gorbachev get so caught up in the breakneck pace of the negotiations that he went further than he had planned...
Whether it was all part of a calculated plan to trap the U.S., Gorbachev's opening gambit achieved an intermediate goal: relinking the issue of medium- range missiles to SDI for the time being. Before Reykjavik, the Soviets had indicated that they would be willing to make an interim deal on INF divorced of strategic and defensive issues. The American game plan had been to decouple as many issues as possible from the prickly SDI dispute. But Gorbachev enticed the Americans into a whirligig of negotiations with his sweeping proposals. Only toward the end, when U.S. and Soviet positions overlapped...
...President, who had declared that the Reykjavik meeting was supposed to be merely a "base camp" for a full-scale summit in the U.S., allow it to turn into a breathtaking marathon marked by snap decisions on some of the most complex and fateful issues of the nuclear age? Did Reagan's men let themselves get carried away by the promise of the deal of the century, when they should have been nailing down a more realistic agreement on medium- range missiles? Instead of pulling an all-nighter in Iceland, why didn't the Americans simply...