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...late November the first U.S. Pershing II ballistic missiles arrived in West Germany, and the first Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles were placed in Great Britain. That triggered the long-threatened Soviet walkout from the INF talks. Two weeks later, on Dec. 8, Karpov and his delegation ended the fifth round of START with an announcement that "in view of the deployment of new U.S. missiles in Europe, which has already begun, changes in the global strategic situation make it necessary for the Soviet side to review all problems under discussion...
Shortly before the Soviet walkout at the end of last year, the Administration had finally abandoned its zero option (cancellation of the NATO deployments in exchange for elimination of all SS-20s throughout the U.S.S.R.); it was inching toward a reasonable compromise whereby the NATO deployments would be scaled back in exchange for a reduction in European SS-20s, with more lenient treatment for SS-20s in Asia. In the INF talks, the major obstacle was, and remains, Soviet intransigence...
...jobs in the industry had touched off the conflict, stood by its policies but left the way open for a negotiated settlement. Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock attacked Thatcher's handling of the crisis but conspicuously avoided making the strike a party cause: the walkout is unpopular with many of Labor's moderate voters. In forcing last week's confrontations, Scargill seemed to be making a bold bid to shore up support in the face of rapidly dwindling strike funds. But his flamboyant intransigence made him seem less interested in saving jobs than in taking...
Thanks to the combined effects of the miners' walkout and the gulf war, which had caused the oil companies to build up their stocks, Britain registered a $1.17 billion trade deficit for April, instead of an anticipated small surplus. The trend could well continue. Scargill called off further picketing after Wednesday's clashes at Orgreave. But on Friday an estimated 3,500 miners again turned up at the beleaguered plant, and another skirmish with police took place. Elsewhere, there were signs that the striking miners might be gathering support. Ken Livingstone, the radical leftist leader of the Greater...
Baird Professor of History Richard E. Pipes said that he remained skeptical over the chances that the meeting will make a mark on Soviet American relations, adding that some of the major issues which should be discussed include Poland, the Soviet walkout of the Geneva talks, and 1984 Summer Olympic Games...