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After returning from Reykjavik, Reagan underscored his determination to push for arms control agreements in Geneva despite Soviet objections to his anti-missile program...
...United States and the Soviet Union blew a historic opportunity in the discussion of arms control last month in Reykjavik, NBC News Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Marvin Kalb told an audience of 400 at a forum at the Institute of Politics last night...
...remain committed to pursuing the dialogue stemming from the Reykjavik meeting in all areas of our relationship," he said. "This problem of espionage is an important one, but it is a separate problem, and our plan is to go ahead with the dialogue...
...freshly tanned American press community eagerly shuffled off through the metal detectors to Reykjavik. If anything went down, the press would be there to get photos. As the trample of journalistic feet covered the diminutive island nation--threatening to sink it to the seabed--editors around America slept contentedly. They knew that every walrus within a 50 mile radius could be on the front page within 24 hours...
...lost at Reykjavik? My initial reaction was that we both, Americans and Soviets, lost. What had started out as a preparatory discussion quickly turned into a historic opportunity with unprecedented proposals being submitted by both sides. Negotiators from both the United States and the Soviet Union, who had held firmly and unblinkingly to positions for years, if not decades, found themselves caught up in a strange dynamic that held the potential for eliminating nuclear weapons, both intermediate and long-range, within a decade...