Word: rostow
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...must be in favor of the U.S. In Reagan's view, ICBMs are "the most destabilizing" weapons, since they alone pose the threat of a preemptive attack; bombers and cruise missiles are too slow flying, and submarine-launched missiles insufficiently accurate, to be anything but retaliatory. Says Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: "There is no harm in asking for unequal reductions that achieve an equal level of stability...
...outcome may depend largely on Reagan's overall political fortunes and the strength of the antinuclear movement a year or two from now. Administration hard-liners believe that no START is better than warmed-over SALT. They fear, in Rostow's words, that it would be "fatal to say we are trying to get an agreement before an election." The Soviets could be tempted to read that as a signal that they need only wait until American resolve in the negotiations cracks under domestic political pressure...
Says one Administration official: "Just consider all the people he has been in fights with recently: [Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Eugene] Rostow, [Secretary of Defense Caspar] Weinberger, [U.N. Ambassador Jeane] Kirkpatrick, [White House Chief of Staff James] Baker, [National Security Adviser William] Clark, [Secretary of the Treasury Donald] Regan. There is no way you can have everybody divorced from foreign policy questions except for the Secretary of State, as Haig tried...
Eugene V. Rostow, Director
That seems to be Reagan's principal position too. This shared willingness to talk may be, at least for now, as significant as the substantive abyss that separates the two sides. That point was stressed by one of the Administration's most ardent hardliners, Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said he: "Arms control negotiations are not bargains among peasants haggling over the price of potatoes. The two leading nuclear powers should do whatever is possible to help lift the cloud of war from the horizon.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Erik...