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...Kabul after a 19-year-old Soviet soldier slipped in through an open gate. Embassy personnel were allowed to come and go, but electricity to the building was cut off while U.S. diplomats tried to determine whether the soldier was seeking political asylum. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, en route to Moscow for presummit consultations: "Our posture is to do our best to look after his interests...
...reason for such stepped-up activity is simple: deadlines are approaching. Secretary of State George Shultz is scheduled to arrive in Moscow this week to put the final touches on preparations for the summit. The British and other NATO allies have flinched at Reagan's attempts to play down expectations for progress on arms control, and there are indications that Gorbachev has ordered his negotiators to pull out all stops in seeking a general statement of principles or perhaps an interim accord on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) based in Europe. One American official remarked that it all reminded...
...faced with two questions: a tactical one of whether to make a response before the summit, and a substantive one about what any response should contain. As usual, the Administration split into naysayers, led by Weinberger, Perle and others at the Pentagon, and dealmakers, with Secretary of State George Shultz, other State Department officials, Arms Control Adviser Paul Nitze and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane at the fore...
...Shultz was also arguing forcefully for a new plan. There was, he told his boss, the "right political dynamic" to make the offer now. "I cannot go to Moscow without this," he reportedly said, "or you will be the one to look bad." When Reagan finally gave his approval the new instructions were quickly sent by cable to Geneva, and the outlines of the offer were incorporated in a letter from Reagan that Ambassador Arthur Hartman delivered in Moscow. As one State Department official put it, "Once it was out in two capitals, the Pentagon would not be able...
...other experts attending the meeting included both those with background in government and academics. Also present at the briefing were Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Vice President George Bush, and several national security advisors and other members of the administration, Pipes said in a telephone interview from Washington...