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Five months after Ronald Reagan took office, Eugene Rostow told Senators considering his appointment to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency that the Administration would not be ready to open strategic arms talks with the Soviets until March 1982. "It may be that a brilliant light will strike our officials," he said, "but I don't know anyone who knows what it is yet that we want to negotiate about." March 1982 has come and gone, and the brilliant light has yet to strike. Indeed, the Administration's new name for the SALT process-START (Strategic Arms Reduction...
...have been ready to launch the broader START talks with Gromyko. Although technical preparations are fairly far along, top U.S. officials "just haven't taken the fundamental decisions" on policy yet, says one arms control specialist. The bargaining package will be ready "by early spring," projects Eugene Rostow, chief of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But that deadline could be postponed because of the divergent views of the arms control agency, the State Department and the Pentagon. As one beleaguered combatant puts it, "The Soviets rank about fifth on our list of enemies...
...media picked it up, and the designation stuck. At his first press conference in January, however, President Reagan noted that "SALT means Strategic Arms Limitation, but . . . we should start negotiating on the basis of trying to effect an actual reduction." So National Security Adviser Richard Allen started START. Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA, which rhymes roughly with actor, at least in Boston), used the new term at his Senate confirmation hearings and helped give it currency...
...sure. Officials at the Department of State -abbreviated as DOS, but never called "Doss"-have taken another firm stand against creeping cuteness. They say it will take an official order for them to start saying START. The CIA is keeping its view secret. Nor is there a consensus at Rostow's ACDA, which has a problem of its own-Congress is planning to drop "Disarmament" from its title, so a way must be found to pronounce ACA ("Assa" does not seem right) or have it revert to being simply a set of initials. All of which should be resolved...
...past. Many of them hate us blindly. I'm not necessarily talking about the top level, but at the next level there are biased zealots, with rather low intellectual capacities at that. And the whole disarmament field has been turned over to people like [Eugene] Rostow, Rowny, Perle and Burt.* It's a bit like the Administration's trying to give responsibility for human rights to this guy [Ernest] Lefever. The whole thing is tremendously Orwellian. I don't know how close these people are to the President. As for [Secretary of State Alexander] Haig, some...