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When Secretary of State George Shultz phoned President Reagan from Moscow last week, he was forced to make his call from a special communications van flown over from the U.S. In the wake of the charges that Marine guards had allowed KGB agents into the embassy, his cables to Washington were dispatched through a communications system that had been elaborately reworked to safeguard their encryption. American security experts took exceptional pains to ensure that the Secretary's sensitive communications were not intercepted by hidden Soviet listening and decoding devices. Although arms-control issues dominated the Secretary's visit...
...What are you afraid of?" asked Mikhail Gorbachev. Doubtless the Soviet leader knew perfectly well why his visitor, Secretary of State George Shultz, could not immediately reply to his newest arms-control bombshell: having unnerved NATO allies when Ronald Reagan traded blue-sky proposals with Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit, the U.S. was determined this time to answer the Soviets only after fully consulting with the West Europeans. But Gorbachev and his subordinates could not resist taunting Shultz for seeming diffident about an offer that, on its face, not only met but topped American terms for a pact to take...
...Europe, and then by agreeing, at least in principle, to on-site inspection to make sure the missiles are gone. When the Western nations pointed out that this would still leave the Soviets with a distinct advantage in shorter-range missiles, Gorbachev outmaneuvered them with yet another concession. Before Shultz's trip to Moscow, Washington's insistence on strict verification looked like a potential stumbling block to a treaty. Until Gorbachev, the Soviets had never been willing to seriously consider the idea of foreigners poking around their missile sites, and it had remained unclear how far the new leader would...
...suggested to Mr. Shultz, in fact, an exact deal that would lead to the meeting of Mr. President with our general secretary, in the autumn or at the end of the year," Viktor Karpov, the chief Soviet arms control official, said on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley...
...United States is considering a proposal discussed last week by Shultz and Gorbachev under which each country would eliminate their medium range missiles in Europe, while keeping up to 100 of the weapons on their own respective territories. So far, the two sides have not agreed on how each would verify that the other is abiding by the agreement...