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...Reagan and his advisers, however, proceeding with SDI would remain necessary as an "insurance policy," as Secretary of State Shultz called it Sunday night, against the possibility of cheating by the Soviet Union or the development of missiles by another country. American officials also came to believe by late Sunday evening that the Soviet Union was not wholly sincere in its sweeping proposals; they began to seem more like a ploy to force the end of SDI. Indeed, the fact that Moscow would scrap the potential agreements that were reached because of the SDI dispute called into question their...
Reagan planned to explain once again his general vision of how both sides could phase in strategic defenses while simultaneously cutting offensive weapons in order to achieve a greater "strategic stability." That explanation, Secretary Shultz had hinted earlier in the week, included offering an inducement: any significant cut in offensive missiles could permit a curtailment...
After talking for 51 minutes, the two leaders invited Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to join them at the rectangular wooden table. When the meeting finished at 12:30, Reagan emerged and told a group of his top aides, "They've got a proposal. But I'm afraid they're going to try to go after SDI." That was when Shultz gathered the top U.S. arms officials to meet in the embassy's secure "bubble" room to revise the President's talking points for the afternoon session...
With these updated talking points, Reagan went back to Hofdi house at 3:30 for his afternoon session with Gorbachev. This time they spent no time alone. Instead they were joined from the start by Shultz and Shevardnadze. Carefully reading from his notes, Reagan offered no new counterproposals. But the revised presentation did stress the areas where the U.S. felt there was now common ground...
...Shultz who came up with the idea of setting up two Soviet-American working groups: one on arms control and the other on humanitarian and regional issues. To head the more visible of the two, the U.S. designated Paul Nitze, the Administration's chief arms-control adviser. The group got down to business just after...