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Rowny laid out a proposal based on President Reagan's May 9 call for a mutual one-third cutback in long-range ballistic-missile warheads. At the envoys' second session, held in the penthouse of the Geneva office of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Rowny made it clear that he did not expect an instant da from the Soviets. "The President wanted to know if I needed some leather pants to be patient," he quipped. "I told him no. Karpov, like his namesake [World Champion Anatoli Karpov], plays chess. We in the West like to play...
...head of your parade if I believed marching alone could bring about a more secure world ... The question is how to proceed." To previous U.S. proposals for elimination of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and reduction of strategic nuclear arms, Reagan added a suggestion for cutbacks in conventional forces. NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, he said, should reduce their armed forces in Europe to 900,000 each: 700,000 ground troops, 200,000 air force personnel. U.S. officials have made essentially the same proposal before in negotiations that have been dragging on in Vienna for nine years. Agreement...
...future budget deficit problems were not caused by overly generous tax reductions last year, but by excessively rapid increases in Government spending on social benefits during the past ten to 15 years. Greenspan acknowledged that "we have probably gone on too far on the military," but noted that a cutback would "send the wrong signals" to the Soviet Union. Said he: "I think that the President's basic approach is correct...
...bottom and he is trying to do the same here," he said. "You've tried to emotionalize what should not be an emotional issue. We have done everything to avoid making this a partisan issue," Armstrong declared, just before charging that the proposal for the $40 billion cutback originated with the Democrats...
Coupled with its $1.6 trillion, five-year defense budget and its plan to push ahead with the MX, cruise missiles, the Trident II submarine program, the B-l and Stealth bombers, the Reagan START proposal in effect offers the Soviets a choice: accept a bilateral deal requiring a cutback on the weapons that may have made the U.S. vulnerable to a first strike, or the U.S. will redress the balance unilaterally by deploying an array of new weapons. In other words, make sacrifices now or face a greatly increased American threat later...