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...gang will all be there when Secretary of State George Shultz's jet heads for Geneva next month, but it is most unlikely to unite in a chorus of Hail, Hail! Instead, the flight may ring with the same discord that fills Washington whenever the subject turns to arms control, since chiefs of all the warring factions will be thrown together. One voice, however, is likely to stand out amid the babble. Paul Nitze, appointed last week by President Reagan as top negotiator and senior adviser to Shultz on arms control, will be the only U.S. official actually sitting...
Nitze's move upstairs to a seventh-floor office near Shultz's in the State Department building has caused agitated speculation in Washington. The general view is that he will strengthen Shultz's hand in dealing with Pentagon hard-liners who are suspicious of any arms-control agreement. The Pentagon, in contrast, hopes Nitze will restrain what it regards as State's excessive eagerness to strike a deal...
...months ago U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly stated that the U.S. "must be willing to use military force" to combat terrorism. Said Shultz: "One of the best deterrents is the certainty that swift and sure measures will be taken against those who engage in it." But as frustrated U.S. officials tried to piece together a complete picture of what was going on at Mehrabad Airport, it seemed all too clear that a policy of retaliation had serious limitations. There was little that the U.S. could have done to prevent such a random act of terrorism. Indeed...
Terrorism, in the words of Secretary of State Shultz, is "a new kind of warfare." As the tragic events at Mehrabad Airport demonstrated, the outcome of this conflict could ultimately be determined as much by strength of will as by strength of arms. At week's end there appeared to be no logical way to cope with a few angry and fanatic men who had killed-and were vowing to kill again. -By John Kohan...
Those upbeat sounds last week were designed to create a favorable atmosphere for the meeting on Jan. 7 and 8 in Geneva between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at which the two will try to set the agenda for a resumption of arms-control talks between the superpowers...