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tary of State George Shultz stayed during his meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, is a regular setting for OPEC meetings. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani maintains a pied-a-terre there. Manager Herbert Schotte, who transformed the 18th-floor restaurant into a four-room, $1,430-a- night royal suite, complete with Chinese dining room furniture, now describes it as "all ready to receive President Reagan if they ever decide on a summit here...
...miracles are expected: nuclear negotiations over the past 22 years have occasionally resulted in limits on future stockpiles, but never in deep reductions of current ones. Yet the U.S. is convinced that the new round of talks is not just necessary but urgent. Said Secretary of State George Shultz last week: "This may be the last time to really address some of these issues with any prospect of success...
...meeting between Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, the Soviets agreed to a broader agenda. In addition to addressing the Star Wars issue, the new arms negotiations will reopen the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), which centered on Europe-based nuclear missiles. While not ruling out Star Wars as a matter for discussion, Reagan has said publicly that it is not a bargaining chip to be traded away for progress on other issues. That is an understandable stipulation: whether or not Reagan would be willing to negotiate Star Wars...
Washington reverberated last week with varying assessments of the negotiations, few of them hopeful, as a long line of Administration officials appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Paul Nitze, Shultz's senior arms-control adviser, predicted cautiously that "it will be difficult to move rapidly toward radical reductions" of offensive weapons, "but not impossible." As for the Soviet aim of restricting the development of space-based weapons, Nitze declared that there is little room for bargaining. Said Nitze: "S.D.I. as a research program cannot logically be limited by agreement because there...
When Secretary of State George Shultz met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva on Jan. 7 and 8 to set the ground rules for next week's negotiations, Gromyko repeatedly objected to the description of space weapons as defensive. The term, he said, was meant to "camouflage" the real purpose, which was actually highly offensive in every sense of the word...