Word: soviet-american
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...takes two to tango." That is how Ronald Reagan once described the condition necessary for cooperation with the Soviet Union. The tango is just the right metaphor for diplomacy. It is performed in the formal setting of a ballroom, to the vigorous but stately measure of 4/4 time, with a good deal of melodramatic posturing and a great variety of steps. But for the past few years, any kind of dance has been just the wrong metaphor for Soviet-American relations. The two superpowers have been circling each other warily, sometimes menacingly. If they came together, many feared, it would...
...vision of Soviet-American relations we need is an ultimate partnership between two countries," he said, speaking through an interpreter that all panelists used. Berman added, "If we give up thinking of the prospect of war, we can live in a world where war can be avoided...
...President saying, "I have been impressed by the seriousness with which you are approaching these important discussions." Before his departure, Kohl was briefed on the American negotiating position in Geneva by Vice President George Bush and other U.S. officials. In one respect, Kohl did in fact act as a Soviet-American mediator: he urged Andropov to agree to a summit meeting with Reagan. The Soviets repeated their agreement to such a get-together on condition that it be well prepared and not merely a propaganda exercise...
...horse trading in Geneva over arms control may be going nowhere, but the Soviet-American negotiations at Tersk were a success. On a Soviet horse farm nestled in the foothills of the northern Caucasus, 70 Western horse breeders, half of them Americans, gathered with hard dollars in hand for the annual Tersk stud Arabian horse auction. The goods for sale were definitely low technology, and détente flourished. The buyers sat in a verdant paddock and listened as an auctioneer wheedled, cajoled and otherwise tried to nudge bids upward with capitalist determination. "What's the matter, you leave...
Unlike Haig, who was preoccupied with Soviet involvement in international terrorism, Shultz placed human rights front and center as a test of Soviet intentions. Said he: "The need for steady improvement of Soviet performance in the most important human rights categories is as central to the Soviet-American dialogue as any other theme." In a break with past Administrations, Shultz argued that arms control should not be the centerpiece of U.S.-Soviet relations. "As important as it is," he said, "arms control has not been-and cannot be-the dominant subject of our dialogue with the Soviets." Indeed, he painted...