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Gromyko asked Shultz to pretend that he was on top of a tower in the Kremlin so that he could see, "objectively," how threatening Star Wars looked from that perspective. Reagan has lamented the unofficial American nickname of S.D.I., insisting that its aims are entirely peaceful, while Soviet spokesmen relish using the literal Russian translation of Star Wars, partly because the phrase includes the word war. Since his meeting with Shultz, Gromyko has continued to heap contempt on the defensive rationale for Star Wars. Mixing his metaphors a bit, he has said that if the U.S. persists with the program...
...Shultz's reply to Gromyko, which Max Kampelman will echo to Victor Karpov next week, was that the promiscuous Soviet buildup of offensive weapons has created a "strategic environment" in which the U.S., out of simple prudence, must consider an offsetting buildup in defenses. By the Administration's reckoning, it is the U.S.S.R., not the U.S., that has sinned against the once sacred principle...
...preparation for this uphill, two-front campaign to sell Star Wars, the Administration has closed ranks behind a four-sentence, 98-word distillation of its philosophy. Known as the "strategic concept," the statement was drafted during the weeks leading up to the Shultz-Gromyko meeting in January. The principal author was Paul Nitze, the Secretary of State's closest adviser on arms control...
...issues in order to return to the Geneva talks, but the chances are next to nil that they will give up their insistence on linkage between any agreement on offensive weapons and parallel progress in the talks on defense. It was at Soviet insistence that the communique released by Shultz and Gromyko after their January meeting in Geneva said, "The sides agree that the subject of the negotiations will be a complex of questions concerning space and nuclear arms --both strategic and intermediate-range--with all these questions considered and resolved in their interrelationship." The Soviets maintain that the prospect...
...immediate objections would have either slowed its progress or stopped the plan altogether. Instead, the ideas discussed Feb. 11 were translated into firm policy on a "close-hold" basis inside the White House. It was only in mid-March that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz were fully informed about what was coming next. There was no real policy debate...