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...General Secretary was about to overlook a young boy. "Mikhail Sergeyevich," she said in her high-pitched voice. Her husband turned around, greeted the child and invited him to Moscow. Her thoroughness can be irritating too. At a State Department lunch in Washington, Raisa upset Secretary of State George Shultz by having a brief conversation with each of the 180 people on the receiving line. Lunch was delayed for hours...
Gorbachev seemed equally committed. Receiving Shultz in Moscow, he said the Washington finesse on SDI was still fine with him. Shultz came home optimistic, telling colleagues that he was sure the Soviets would not let the SDI issue get in the way of an agreement...
Howard Baker sided with Shultz. "I have but one constituent," he said, referring to the President, who was chairing the meeting. "And I understand that he wants to overcome these obstacles and push ahead. We have a presidential commitment. We have an obligation to make a real effort...
...term that subsumed warheads on ballistic missiles as well as weapons on manned bombers. Karpov said 6,000 would represent roughly an overall 50% cut in strategic forces, since each side would cut from approximately 12,000 weapons. That was something of a magic number for the American side. Shultz told his staff that a START agreement would have to cut in half the most dangerous part of the strategic arsenals to satisfy Reagan's determination to achieve deep reductions. "Without 50%," he said, "the fun goes out of it for the President...
That sentence was inserted at the behest of Shultz. It was intended as a hint of compromise. Another sentence had been included, however, at the insistence of Weinberger and Perle: "The sides should agree to begin exploring immediately means by which a cooperative transition to greater reliance on defensive systems, should such systems prove feasible, could be accomplished...