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Nitze, who had become special adviser to Shultz and Reagan on arms control, had never liked the zero option, but he now did his best to sell it to U.S. allies in Europe. During one of his frequent missions, European leaders told Nitze that they had invested considerable political capital in accepting the American missiles. They had withstood domestic opposition by arguing that the missiles were necessary to assure "coupling" between America's nuclear forces and its defense of NATO. It would be awkward to justify the removal of all the U.S. missiles, even as part of a deal that...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan said yesterday that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev agreed to drop demands for restrictions on the Star Wars program, but Secretary of State George P. Shultz said he did not sense any Kremlin departure from its insistence on linking long-range weapons cuts to a curb in the American missile-defense initiative...
...Shultz, who was in Brussels to meet with European allies on the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty that was signed Tuesday, took a far less optimistic view than that espoused by Reagan...
Despite progress at the summit, Shultz said, the Soviets had not assured they would sign a strategic arms reduction treaty without securing limitations on Star Wars...
...Soviets have linked the two issues in the past, "and I don't sense any particular delinkage," Shultz said...