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...Christopher Ogden from Chicago reported and assessed the debate, question by question. Douglas Brew and Sam Allis, both from Washington, judged the individual performances of Reagan and Mondale. Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, in consultation with his TIME colleagues, contributed an overview of the event. In Washington, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reviewed how each candidate handled the details of foreign policy under the pressures of the face-to-face meeting. In addition, TIME had a panel of foreign policy and political science experts standing by to offer their own reactions immediately after the debate...
...arms control, Mondale repeatedly questioned Reagan's competence to deal with the subject. He cited the book Deadly Gambits by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott to indicate gaps in the President's knowledge. Reagan's "failure to master . . . the essential elements of arms control," said Mondale, had "cost us dearly." As an example, Mondale accused Reagan several times of saying that nuclear missiles launched by submarines can be recalled, which in fact they cannot. The President replied that the accusation was "ridiculous"; he had said the submarines themselves could be recalled...
THERE IS a brooding presence in Deadly Gambits. In page after page, it makes its presence vaguely felt. Strobe Talbott offers the reader glimpses, tantalizing hints of an influence we sense must be crucial to his story. But through hundreds of pages of well-written, exhaustively-researched work. Talbott barely acknowledges the existence of this presence. It must be the Soviet Union (they are the other super-power, aren't they?), yet judging from the title, the introduction, and almost the entire work, it might as well be our imagination...
...Strobe Talbott has written by far the most valuable, detailed, thoughtful treatise on the nuclear dilemma since the most recent furor over these deadly devices began some five or six years ago. His knowledge of the material is unparalled; his writing skill outstrips that of any other writer on this subject; his access to the people involved is unmatched. But perhaps this last fact is what really dooms Deadly Gambits as a useful guideline for decisions about nuclear policy. How Byzantine and deceitful have the men in the Kremlin been? We do not know: neither does Talbott. What have been...
...comes the unsurprising news, courtesy of a new book by Time diplomatic correspondent Strobe Talbott, that all along these negotiations, Reagan has failed to understand many of the basic disarmament policies of his government. Why should Gromyko take us seriously? Why, indeed, given the record, should we take the sudden about-face in U.S. approach, Reagan's soothing words, and the apparent pell-mell scramble for a Chernenko-Reagan summit seriously...