Word: sdi
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...general vision of how both sides could phase in strategic defenses while simultaneously cutting offensive weapons in order to achieve a greater "strategic stability." That explanation, Secretary Shultz had hinted earlier in the week, included offering an inducement: any significant cut in offensive missiles could permit a curtailment of SDI...
...cuff; by reading from a long paper this time, he gave the impression that he was following detailed guidelines worked out within the Politburo. At the heart of his proposals was the Soviet view that there could be a deep reduction in offensive missiles if the U.S. would postpone SDI development. In a sense, this was a flip side of the State Department position that a sharp reduction in offensive weapons would logically require less defense...
...Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to join them at the rectangular wooden table. When the meeting finished at 12:30, Reagan emerged and told a group of his top aides, "They've got a proposal. But I'm afraid they're going to try to go after SDI." That was when Shultz gathered the top U.S. arms officials to meet in the embassy's secure "bubble" room to revise the President's talking points for the afternoon session...
...brakes and perhaps reverses its buildup, the result may indeed be a new round of the defensive-arms race, one in which the U.S. would, at least initially, have the advantage of superior technology. Gorbachev has been pressing for an updated version of the original SALT deal: restrictions on SDI (which is a latter-day ABM system) in exchange for significant reductions in offensive weaponry, especially the most threatening Soviet systems...
Some members of the Reagan Administration hope for a so-called grand compromise before the President leaves office. In recent months, Reagan has hinted that in exchange for the right Soviet concessions, SDI may be negotiable. One of his most conciliatory statements came on June 19 in a speech to a high school graduating class. He praised the Soviets' latest proposals in Geneva and said he was hoping that Gorbachev would "join me in taking action--action in the name of peace." The site of that speech was Glassboro...