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...they set up Daniloff merely in retaliation for the arrest in New York of Soviet U.N. worker Gennadi Zakharov--hoping they could then work out a quiet, straight-forward swap for their spy? Or did they desire all along that the arrest cloud superpower relations and force a U.S. government under pressure to move toward an arms-control agreement to make concessions it would not otherwise make...
...what we're left with is a Swap That Isn't a Swap and a Summit That Isn't a Summit. "There was no connection between these two releases," Reagan said of the releases of Daniloff and Zakharov. "This is not a summit," he said of his upcoming "table-setting" meeting with the Soviet leader. Uhhuh. And war is peace, and I'm touring with the E Street Band next summer...
...think we got very little for what was really an outrageous act of aggression," said Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on the arrest of Daniloff. The dangerous precedent of the Daniloff-Zakharov swap--of a Soviet spy for an American civilian--he said, "is more important than some glossy summit...
...willing to do even that would be a trade of the reporter for Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee whose arrest for espionage in New York City triggered the frame-up of Daniloff in Moscow a week $ later. And the Reagan Administration has sworn never to accept a straight swap of a real spy for an innocent American...
...parallel procedures looked like the first steps toward exactly what the Reagan Administration had repeatedly vowed not to arrange: a straight swap of Zakharov for Daniloff. Washington appeared to be conceding that the cases should be treated as equivalent, despite its repeated thunders that Zakharov is a real spy arrested in the act of trying to buy classified documents while Daniloff is the innocent victim of a crude KGB frame-up that began when a Soviet acquaintance thrust a package of documents into his hands in Moscow...