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...more sensible to eliminate those arms?" Reagan is caught in a public relations bind: it will be difficult for him to explain convincingly why he is prepared to scuttle a plan to rid the world of nuclear missiles by insisting on the right to build a defensive shield against those missiles. The Soviets are likely to confront Reagan with the somewhat illogical statement he made in his Oct. 31 interview with four Soviet journalists, in which he pledged to seek the elimination of nuclear missiles before deploying a defense against them...
...Supreme Court has reversed Kaufman before in this case, when the judge ruled in 1977 that libel plaintiffs do not have the right to probe a journalist's thoughts. Whether Colonel Herbert's controversial case will finally prove to be a sword to skewer the press or a shield to protect it remains to be seen...
After two intensive days of bargaining, Mikhail Gorbachev would not relent in his insistence that Ronald Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative, designed to serve as a space-based shield against ballistic missiles, be confined to "laboratory research." And Reagan was equally adamant that the U.S. retain the right not only to conduct scientific research on new Star Wars weapons but to develop and test them as well...
...complete elimination of all ballistic missiles from the respective arsenals of both nations." It was the Soviet leader, Reagan said, who balked. "The General Secretary said he would consider our offer only if we restricted all work on SDI to laboratory research, which would have killed our defensive shield...
...simply could not have given in on the SDI issue. "In the end, with great reluctance, the President, having worked so hard, creatively and constructively for these potentially tremendous achievements, simply had to refuse to compromise the security of the U.S., of our allies and freedom by abandoning the shield that has held in front of freedom." White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan put the failure in more direct language: "We got 99 yards but didn't score. It was the Soviets who fumbled the ball...