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Gorbachev's gambit of reading off a new set of Soviet ideas and proposals caught Reagan by surprise. In Geneva, Gorbachev had spoken off the cuff; by reading from a long paper this time, he gave the impression that he was following detailed guidelines worked out within the Politburo. At the heart of his proposals was the Soviet view that there could be a deep reduction in offensive missiles if the U.S. would postpone SDI development. In a sense, this was a flip side of the State Department position that a sharp reduction in offensive weapons would logically require less...
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...
...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...
...definitely are not going to accomplish anything substantive at this presummit summit. Most recent memory: the underground Broadway disco in Reykjavík, an Icelandic rock group called Strax, led by a woman with her black hair done up to look like a crow in flight, singing about U.S. and Soviet journalists vying for scoops...
...round of official Icelandic receptions was politely turned down by the U.S. and Soviet delegations; both pleaded the burdens of work. But with a news black-out in effect much of the time, reporters bore no such burdens. The Icelanders essentially put on a huge trade show for their captive audience of some 2,000 journalists. The basketball court in the gymnasium of a local high school was transformed into the "Iceland Center," complete with a generous spread of local delicacies (herring, smoked lamb and skyr, which is said to taste like honey-flavored yogurt). Outside the press center, half...