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Both superpowers indicated yesterday they were ready to build on the Reykjavik summit and move toward an agreement sharply reducing U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons in Europe...
...twilight ever since," wrote British Historian James Bryce after an 1872 visit to the island. "It is hardly possible that she should again be called on to play a part in history." This week, however, Iceland's very remoteness has thrust it onto center stage. President Reagan reportedly chose Reykjavik over London for this meeting to minimize distractions. The driving force behind this superpower outing, according to both Soviet and U.S. officials, is "less is best." In attracting the two leaders, Iceland's spartan isolation may have been its major selling point...
When he does meet Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Gorbachev will at least have traveled halfway toward achieving his goal of a summit with substance. The American President and his Soviet counterpart have been sparring with each other over the conditions for their next meeting since shortly after they left the Geneva International Center last November. Like Reagan, Gorbachev has a < coterie of conservative critics who see no purpose to a second summit. Some Western observers believe the Communist Party General Secretary was criticized within the Politburo last year for getting too chummy with Reagan, and is now dogged by resistance...
...modern world" has held his rhetorical tongue firmly in check since then. The President who slapped sanctions on the Soviet Union in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland waited less than 24 hours after Daniloff was set free before announcing he would meet with Gorbachev in Reykjavik to ! talk about arms control...
...relations and urging that his personal situation not be allowed to torpedo talks between the two leaders. In a way that could hardly have been predicted, the dispute over his detention became part of a complex mechanism that resulted in the decision by the two leaders to meet in Reykjavik...