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...being expanded. This year the U.S. has carried out only four successful orbital launches, while the Soviets have had 37. The U.S. space shuttle is grounded until at least the summer of 1988. In the meantime, the evidence grows that a scaled-down Soviet shuttle has already been tested. TASS, the Soviet news agency, last week disclosed that the new rocket will launch "reusable orbital spaceships." U.S. experts believe the first manned Soviet shuttle flight may come late this year or in early...
...idea of foreigners poking around their missile sites, and it had remained unclear how far the new leader would go. But Gorbachev not only indicated approval of American ideas, he tried last week to make them sound as if they were his own. According to the Soviet news agency TASS, he told Shultz, "We shall be demanding verification and inspection everywhere: on the sites of missiles' dismantling, on the sites of their elimination, at ranges and military bases, including third countries, at depots and plants...
Gorbachev replied by proposing what some Europeans called a "super-zero option." For once, TASS carried the most complete account of his talks with Shultz. In effect, Gorbachev said, We want to take warheads out of Europe, not put more in. So let's equalize once more at zero: we will get rid of all our European shorter-range missiles if the U.S. pledges not to bring any such weapons into the Continent. He implied this would be done within a year of Senate ratification of a treaty on INF (intermediate-range nuclear forces) weapons...
During his talks in Moscow, Shultz raised several other issues. In an interview on Soviet television, he repeatedly criticized the Kremlin for occupying Afghanistan. He pressed Gorbachev on human rights, particularly Jewish immigration. That irritated the Soviet leader, who approved a TASS commentary rebuking Shultz for attending a Passover Seder with a number of Soviet refuseniks. Gorbachev showed little flexibility on any of these matters...
...Tass said Shultz and Shevardnadze were "considering in a concrete way" the prospects for an agreement to remove medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe...