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...result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow, the dispute involving the U.S. News & World Report correspondent and Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee awaiting trial in New York City on spy charges...
From the beginning, the Daniloff affair (which now encompasses not only the arrest of Zakharov but also Washington's order to expel 25 Soviet employees from the U.N.) has been seen as a ready gauge of the desire in Moscow and Washington for progress on larger issues. If both sides wanted a summit, it was thought, a way would be found to untangle the affair. That forced both leaders, after months of dithering, to face squarely the question of how badly they really desired to meet again. The answer: badly enough to give their diplomats a go-ahead to negotiate...
...meetings between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.N. in New York City uncovered the outlines of a potential bargain: Daniloff would be released quickly and probably without any trial on what the U.S. regards as trumped-up espionage charges against him. Zakharov would be traded later for one or more Soviet dissidents. The expulsion of the 25 Soviets at the U.N. remains a sticking point...
...significance of all this activity went far beyond the fates of Daniloff and Zakharov, and even beyond the prospect of another chance for Reagan to sit by a fireplace with Gorbachev. The goal that suddenly seemed in sight was a potentially important breakthrough in arms control. Both sides have been quietly inching toward a bargain on the highly charged issue of intermediate- range nuclear forces, one that for the first time would significantly reduce -- rather than just set a ceiling on -- the number of nuclear weapons. At the U.N. last week, Reagan and Shevardnadze raised hopes for a quick agreement...
...much it wanted either a summit or an agreement of any kind. The tone of the superpower exchanges began to change over the summer, as a variety of exchanges between the President and the Soviet leader encouraged arms experts in Geneva to make solid progress. But then the Zakharov-Daniloff matter exploded at the end of August, giving each side a perfect excuse to call off a summit if it wanted...