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...outcome will inevitably intensify the controversy, raging at home as well as abroad, over Reagan's unyielding commitment to SDI. To many Americans, the entire Soviet ploy in Iceland might seem to be a setup, one that would give the Kremlin powerful propaganda ammunition in its current "peace crusade." Gorbachev was quick to blame the U.S. for the breakdown. Said he Sunday night: "Let America think. We are waiting. We are not withdrawing the proposals we have made...
...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...
When he departed for Iceland last Thursday, Reagan seemed determined to minimize expectations. "We have serious problems with the Soviet Union on a great many issues," he told a crowd on the South Lawn of the White House. After flight of more than five hours, he was greeted at Keflavik airport by President Vigdis Finnbogadottir and Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson, then driven to the American ambassador's residence, where he was staying...
...control with top advisers, when Gorbachev's Ilyushin-62 jet arrived from Moscow--at the same time as the ceremonial opening of Iceland's parliament. It was bad advance work by Moscow, for it meant that neither Iceland's President nor Prime Minister could be there to greet the Soviet leader. He and his wife Raisa were met instead by Foreign Minister Matthias Matthiesen. "We told Moscow about the opening of the parliament," lamented a Soviet embassy vice-consul, "but they decided it was too late to change plans...
Unlike Reagan, Gorbachev paused to speak with reporters upon his arrival, reiterating Moscow's professed goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by the end of the century. Then, with a wave to the crowd, he and his wife were whisked away by car to the Georg Ots, the Soviet ship on which they stayed in Reykjavik harbor...