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Steam Ahead with SDI...
...President had no choice but to reject this demand, which would have killed SDI. Said Reagan at a Baltimore rally for Republican Senatorial Candidate Linda Chavez: "SDI is America's insurance policy that the Soviets will begin living up to the arms control agreements that they've agreed to. SDI is one of the chief reasons the Soviets went to the summit and one of the primary reasons they'll come back again. SDI is the key to a world free of nuclear blackmail...
This case is not entirely consistent. If the Administration is correct in arguing that the summit showed the stopping of SDI to be Gorbachev's goal of goals, then it is hard to discern much ground for its simultaneous contention that the Reykjavik meeting brought a comprehensive arms deal much closer. Says Poindexter: "If they really want to kill SDI, which it appears is their motivation, there is no way we can come to an agreement on that. There is no way we would ever agree to eliminate all ballistic missiles without a defense system...
...sharp criticism from Democrats campaigning for next month's congressional elections. Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods, a liberal running for the Senate, contented herself with this bland comment: "I'm not saying the President should have accepted (Gorbachev's offer). I do think that the Administration must now define SDI's purpose more clearly...
...seriously about deep slashes in nuclear arms. Even the antinuclear European left generally declined to indulge in Reagan bashing. In the Netherlands, the Inter-Church Peace Council deplored a "historic chance that was missed," but chastised the Soviets for linking reductions in intermediate-range nuclear weapons to restrictions on SDI...