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...range nuclear missiles in Europe. By contrast, Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov grandly revealed that he was willing to make generous-sounding "concessions." There were bitter divisions in the Reagan Administration over how to respond. The confusion was compounded last week when the President fired his arms control chief, Eugene Rostow, 69, and replaced him with Kenneth Adelman, 36, an arms control neophyte with pronounced conservative views...
...shift at the top of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) sent the wrong signal at the wrong time. Rostow, perhaps too publicly for his own good, had argued for a more flexible U.S. approach to the arms talks. His sacking was seen in European capitals as evidence that Reagan either was not serious about arms reduction or, almost as worrisome, had no idea how to respond to the Kremlin peace offensive. "The Administration has played right into Andropov's hands," said a French foreign affairs specialist. Indeed, the Soviets were quick to capitalize on their propaganda windfall...
...Rostow, a conservative Democrat, former State Department official and longtime professor at Yale University Law School, came under fire from the White House last summer when he and Paul Nitze, the INF negotiator whom Rostow supervised, recommended that the U.S. pursue an informal proposal that Nitze had discussed with Yuli Kvitsinsky, the Soviet INF negotiator at Geneva. As one Administration official recalls, it offered "the glimmer of a damned good outcome." William Clark, Reagan's National Security Adviser, criticized both Rostow and Nitze for not staying in closer contact with the White House. Nitze responded with a question...
...Rostow had other problems with the White House. It undercut his attempt to appoint the man he wanted as his deputy, Robert Grey, a career State Department official, choosing to give in to the challenge of a few conservative Republican Senators, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms. Reagan, in fact, finally dropped Grey's name from consideration. White House aides leaked word that this was really a ploy to get Rostow angry enough to quit. They maintained that Rostow treated the President with professorial condescension, was too prickly to deal with and offered his opinions on matters beyond...
...been a privilege to serve as director of ACDA for the last 20 months." Rostow said in his brief statement. In recent days it has become clear that the President wished to make changes. In response to his request. I have tendered my resignation...