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Hopes fade for a spring thaw between Moscow and Washington...
...nothing that might politically help the man whom one Soviet commentator called "the worst U.S. President since Truman." The prospects for significant progress in the superpowers' relations for the remainder of this year have rarely appeared dimmer. Said one top Reagan aide of the chances for a thaw: "I think under any scenario we're talking about next year...
...that the Soviets have been terribly helpful in promoting a thaw. The flicker of conciliation that flashed when Chernenko first took power has long since been extinguished. The Soviet leader's replies to two letters from Reagan seeking specific responses on various issues consisted of "puzzling vagaries," according to a State Department official privy to the correspondence. A third letter, carried by retired General Brent Scowcroft, head of the President's Bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, on a private visit to Moscow, failed to reach Chernenko because the Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate...
...primary day, soon after the first ballots had been cast in Dixville Notch, flakes began to fall. By dawn a swirling nor'easter was repainting the state white after an unseasonable two-week thaw.. The turnout (101,129, or 75.8%) was surprisingly large, but it was a Hart crowd: half were under 40, and 40% were independents who went for Hart by 2 to 1. Mondale did carry the over-60 age group, but its turnout was about 10% lower than in the last primary. The ever efficient Mondale organization dispatched 30 cars in Manchester alone and even...
...Reagan Administration did its best last week to suggest that the changing of the guard in the Kremlin was an opportunity for the superpowers to thaw their frigid relations. After his meeting with Konstantin Chernenko, Vice President George Bush declared that the two men had agreed on the need "to place our relationship upon a more constructive path." He added, "The mood was good, the spirit was excellent. It signals that we can go from there...