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Whatever he thinks, it will be largely up to Shultz to explain and defend the dealings with Iran to American allies. He had to start last week in, oddly enough, Paris, where he had gone after a meeting with Shevardnadze in Vienna. Shultz was in France to discuss arms-control problems and other policy matters with French leaders, including Premier Jacques Chirac. The U.S. has been critical of France for not joining a British attempt to boycott Syria diplomatically as a terrorist nation and for its haste in negotiating a deal to return to Tehran Iranian funds that had been...
...almost as if the Soviets and Americans who met last week in Vienna to pick up where they had left off on arms control at the Iceland summit also decided to mimic the outcome at Reykjavik. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz started the talks with friendly smiles and expressions of hope. Then, two days later, they emerged frustrated, each blaming the other for their failure to break the Reykjavik stalemate. Before Shevardnadze boarded a plane back to Moscow, he said the talks had left him with a "bitter taste." Declared Secretary Shultz...
...Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars program. The Soviets insisted that progress on all other nuclear arms depended on restricting the space-based defense system; the U.S. refused to trade away any part of the Star Wars program in exchange for new arms deals. Again, said Shultz, "it seemed that their objective was to try to cripple SDI, and it is not going to work." Though both sides emphasized that talks would go on, the failure at Vienna reduces the prospect of an arms agreement in the near future...
...breakthrough dimmed the moment the Soviet team arrived in Vienna. Shevardnadze was not accompanied by the full delegation that had negotiated deep into the night in Iceland. Most conspicuously absent: Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Soviet Chief of Staff and leader of the Reykjavik arms- control team. The first meeting between Shultz and Shevardnadze lasted three hours. From the beginning, the Soviets made it clear that they were not interested in the U.S. goal of defining some areas of agreement, perhaps including the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, or disagreement. Instead, Soviet negotiators hammered away at just one subject: SDI. Senior...
...Shultz and Shevardnadze met again Thursday morning for two hours, but by that time no one expected a positive result. The U.S. team became convinced that the Soviets had come to Vienna to stonewall. "It was clear their , instructions were not to make substantive progress," snapped a senior American official. Said another: "They just wanted to increase the public relations pressure...