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...SOVIET POSITION...
Human rights have always been a touchy topic for Soviet leaders, and for Gorbachev more than most. Reagan plans an appeal to Soviet self-interest, arguing that it is abuses of human rights that make the U.S. public most suspicious of Moscow, and most unwilling to conclude agreements. Gorbachev has developed a counterargument that the U.S.S.R. values such "human rights" as full employment and free medical care, which the U.S. ignores. In addition, the Soviet press has lately been playing up such alleged U.S. violations of human rights as the Move bombing in Philadelphia. Sample fulmination: according to Pravda...
...most cursory review of the Soviet-American agenda is sobering: with few exceptions, the more important and potentially dangerous the issue, the deeper are the divergences. The spirit in which they are discussed, however, can make a lasting difference in the long run, and only the heads of government can set the tone for their subordinates. Barring some spectacular blowup or equally improbable major agreement, the success or failure of the summit will eventually be judged less by what Reagan and Gorbachev do in Geneva than by what happens in what is likely to be a long and difficult series...
...wants to prevent local clashes from turning into superpower confrontations. Reagan will say the U.S.S.R. should stop supporting Communist insurgency in El Salvador and break its military ties with Nicaragua. The U.S. will also criticize Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Africa and Kampuchea and will suggest the signing of a mutual statement condemning terrorism...
...would like to open new consulates in both countries, restore landing rights for U.S. and Soviet airlines, which were eliminated after the KAL 007 tragedy, and establish a system of regular superpower summits...