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...Soviet walkout in Geneva had been virtually guaranteed 13 hours earlier in the West German capital of Bonn, where two days of tumultuous parliamentary debate had ended with a resounding affirmation of NATO's missile policy. While West German police struggled with antinuclear demonstrators in the streets outside, members of parliament voted 286 to 226 to accept a first shipment of nine Pershing II nuclear ballistic missiles on their soil. Within 24 hours of the decision, U.S. C-5 Galaxy transports had deposited the weapons at the Ramstein Air Base near Mannheim. From there, the Pershings were moved...
...Washington, the first word of the Soviet walkout was greeted with relative aplomb. Prior to setting out for a four-day Thanksgiving vacation, President Reagan declared that "I don't think I'm surprised by what they did this morning, but I am disappointed. I can't believe that it's going to be permanent." The subsequent Andropov statement, however, may have been tougher than the White House bargained for. Along with cessation of the talks, the Soviet leader outlined in unusual detail his country's longstanding plans to up the nuclear ante by new deployments of atomic weapons. Among...
...negotiating in Geneva than on stirring up Western Europe's growing peace movement, especially in West Germany. Said a senior Reagan Administration official: "They were betting heavily on fear created by the antideployment movement." Playing to that fear, Andropov issued a statement on Oct. 26 that explicitly threatened a walkout from the Geneva talks if deployment began on schedule...
...follow-up press conference, Nitze stressed that the Soviet walkout should not be viewed as a death knell for the talks. Progress, he said, "has been made on almost all issues." He added that the U.S. is "prepared to continue the negotiations at any time. All I can say is I hope they come back. They should come back...
Earlier in the week, Administration officials had expressed little concern about the imminent walkout. "It is a victory for the alliance and sour grapes for the Soviets," a cheerful State Department official had said. But Andropov's Thanksgiving Day statement came as a disappointment. Insisting, as the Soviet Union has done at every stage of its SS-20 buildup, that a "rough parity continues to exist in Europe" between NATO and Warsaw Pact medium-range missiles, Andropov warned that the U.S. and its allies must bear the consequences of their "myopic" policy. He labeled further participation in the Geneva talks...