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...afternoon session at the American headquarters, the two leaders took on the most essential, and contentious, issue of the summit: arms control. The debate that ensued was intense and riveting...
Gloom hung over the American team's working lunch that day. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes raised the prospect of facing headlines that read SUMMIT BREAKS UP OVER SDI. He wondered anxiously how it would play back home. Badly, suggested Arms Control Adviser Paul Nitze, who noted that SDI does not enjoy overwhelming public support in the U.S. Speakes took the precaution of ordering press aides to prepare experts who could fan out over Geneva that night to put the right spin on news of a breakup...
...sides at last had a deal that left the U.S. delegation wearily satisfied. The Soviets had wanted to make Geneva an "arms-control summit" to focus attention on Star Wars. The fact that the statement addressed other issues as well, however fleetingly and blandly, was regarded as something of a victory for Reagan. For the first time, the Soviets had agreed to call for substantial cuts in offensive weapons without simultaneously insisting on a ban on Star Wars. Indeed, SDI was barely alluded to in the joint statement. The aim of the arms-control negotiations, it declared, should...
Finally, as fine flakes of snow powdered the gray morning sky on Thursday, Reagan and Gorbachev broke their public silence and converged on the drab concrete bunker in Geneva that serves as an international conference center to tell the world what their private fireside summit had produced. Their report was modest. As Gorbachev put it in a brief, formal statement, the talks had failed at "solving of the most important problems concerning the arms race." He cautioned, "If we really want to succeed in something, then both sides are going to have to do an awful lot of work." Nonetheless...
...thing one has to understand is that when others doubt and hesitate, Reagan trusts freedom--in politics, in trade, in prayer. When the Soviet double defector Vitaly Yurchenko spilled his story in Moscow to embarrass Reagan just before the summit, the President leaned back and listened. Yurchenko said the CIA drugged him and his complexion turned green, then they took him out to play golf so he could get a tan, and next they escorted him to dinner with the CIA's director Bill Casey, whose fly was unbuttoned. Reagan doubled up with laughter. So did the free world...