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...Eduard Shevardnadze, 57, appointed only a month ago. The two men paused briefly to exchange chitchat with the help of interpreters and to pose for eager photographers. Later Shultz declared that three hours of private talks with his Soviet counterpart had provided a "good first step" toward the Geneva summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev scheduled for Nov. 19 and 20. The comment sent ripples of relief through Helsinki delegates representing the U.S., Canada and every European country except Albania. The 35 delegations had convened in the Finnish capital's modernistic Finlandia Hall to mark...
...even as each side blamed the other for weakening the Helsinki Accords, once considered a milestone of détente (see box). In their private conversations, they moved easily into a rapport that, as a senior Administration official later put it, "expressed the will" to make progress at the November summit, the first such U.S.-Soviet meeting since 1979. That accomplishment, said Shultz afterward, helped to make the meeting "productive." The Soviets were a bit more cautious: the private session, they said, had been "interesting," "useful" and "frank...
...substance of those accomplishments was more difficult to define. By and large, the two men laid out their countries' positions on major issues dividing the superpowers and agreed on those that would appear on the agenda of the November summit. According to the U.S. side, the program would include four categories: 1) arms control and security, 2) regional conflicts such as Afghanistan, Kampuchea and Central America, 3) bilateral matters, including trade and cultural exchanges, and 4) human rights. But Soviet officials asserted that only three categories would be discussed; human rights did not appear on the Soviet list...
Looming on the horizon is November's Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva, where the Soviet offer of a test moratorium could become an important Soviet trump card if the U.S. has made no further moves by then. Already, Reagan is suggesting that he might be amenable to a "permanent moratorium" after the next round of U.S. tests. But his advisers are hedging. Said National Security Council Spokesman Edward Djerejian: "We are not proposing any new initiative...
Morocco's King Hassan II was somber as he stared across the octagonal conference room of his palace in Casablanca last week. In almost the same breath in which he declared open a summit meeting of the 21-member League of Arab States, the monarch deplored "the existence of vacant seats" at the first such gathering in three years. The brocaded chairs intended for Syria, Lebanon, South Yemen, Algeria and Libya were empty. Of the remainder, only eight were filled by heads of state. Most notably absent was Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who was represented by Crown Prince Abdullah...