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...George Shultz's visit to Moscow was supposed to pin down one achievement that could serve as a lifeline for Ronald Reagan's foundering presidency: the long- awaited and much heralded visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to the U.S. But the Soviet leader was curiously circumspect as he posed with the Secretary of State last Friday in the ocher-colored St. Catherine Hall of the Kremlin's Great Palace. "I think this will happen," he replied, somewhat evasively, when reporters questioned him about the prospects for a summit. Asked whether he would like to see just Washington or the rest...
...Shultz said the U.S. side was prepared to discuss with the Soviets the U.S. quest for a spacebased defense against ballistic missiles...
...Shultz said he could provide no guarantee that the issue would be discussed at the summit...
...Shultz and his advisers had not expected the Soviet leader to bring up the issue as a barrier to a fall summit, which Gorbachev had agreed to last month after Shevardnadze's talks in Washington with Reagan and Shultz...
...willing, and I don't think we ever will be willing, to throw in the towel on learning how to defend ourselves," Shultz said...