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...falling into the ALCM category, and the Soviets insist that the range of 370 miles or more has already been agreed upon. Predicts a top U.S. START negotiator: "We'll get over it." U.S. negotiators hope to wrap up START negotiations in Geneva in time for the scheduled June summit meeting between Bush and Gorbachev...
...summit is set against the backdrop of a continuing hemispheric drug scourge that shows little sign of abating. Colombia's effort to rein in the drug lords has scored some successes. Barco told TIME, "The leadership of the drug cartels has received a major blow. A number of members of the cartels have been extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Their leaders are hiding and on the run." In the past twelve months, troops have confiscated more than 1 million gal. of precursor chemicals used in cocaine refinement and 32 tons of cocaine and coca paste, compared with...
...last week, it was tempting to prejudge the meeting between the foreign ministers of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as a matter of minor consequence. The Soviets seemed so distracted -- understandably so -- that even as Secretary of State James Baker flew into Moscow to prepare for the June superpower summit, he was uncertain whether his schedule would hold up. His engagement with Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze had already been rebooked twice. Then an apologetic Shevardnadze was forced to push their first appointment back an hour and had to duck out of the historic party conference to keep his date...
...apparently paid off. For years both sides have been dickering over the fine points of a strategic missile treaty and got nowhere on reducing troops in Europe. But in the past week they went a long way toward settling crucial issues brought up during previous negotiations, including the December summit in Malta. Baker and Shevardnadze settled in principle two major sticking points and agreed to finesse a third that had been holding up an agreement reducing long-range nuclear weapons. The Soviets accepted the U.S. plan for a phased abolition of chemical weapons. And Moscow formally eliminated linkage between missile...
...parity demanded by Gorbachev seemed almost certain to find approval in Washington, especially since the U.S. has tried to eliminate the Soviet asymmetrical advantage in conventional forces for 16 years. Baker called Gorbachev's counteroffer "very close to the President's proposal." It could all make for a satisfying summit in Washington next June...