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...next event to set off cheers and a standing ovation from the Harvard crowds came in the 3000-meter, after Army had swept all the shorter distances. Harvard's Kate Wiley tired her opponents with 15 speedy laps, finishing...
...other Central American countries," a phrase that at the time could only mean Nicaragua. "How would you Like to have missiles there?" he asked. Other members of the Soviet negotiating team were issuing more credible threats: an increase in the number of SS-20s, the deployment of new shorter-range missiles in Eastern Europe, bringing submarines equipped with cruise missiles and low-flying "depressed-trajectory" ballistic missiles near the coasts...
...addition to favoring what became known as "zero only," Perle wanted the U.S. proposal to contain a number of measures that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate: 1) existing shorter-range Soviet missiles, such as the SS-12s and SS-22s, would have to be eliminated along with the SS-20s; 2) the limits should apply "globally," in other words not only to the 243 SS-20s deployed within range of Western Europe but to an additional 90 or so in Asia; 3) there would be a ban not just on launchers but on extra rockets...
...National Security Council meeting on Nov. 12,1981, Reagan sided with the Pentagon, although he did not go quite as far as Perle would have liked. Shorter-range missiles, for example, were to be treated separately and less stringently than the SS-20s. Reagan had paid little attention to the interagency wrangling, but he worked hard on the packaging of the final position. He pored over numerous drafts for a speech, including one that he revised while returning to Washington from Texas aboard the specially adapted Boeing 747 that was equipped to serve as his airborne command center during...
Nitze even had a military justification for giving up the Pershing II. It involved deploying instead a shorter-range version of the missile called the Pershing IB. That weapon would have had the accuracy, mobility and other high-tech advantages of the Pershing II and could hit Warsaw Pact airfields, rail transshipment points and command centers. But because of its shorter range it would not be limited by the agreement...