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Before his speech, the Soviet foreign minister had an unscheduled 45-minute meeting with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, apparently to discuss the confinement of American reporter Nicholas S. Daniloff '56 in Moscow on spy charges...
Although Reagan said "a pall has been cast" over U.S.-Soviet relations by the Nicholas S. Daniloff '56 affair, he did not suggest the case would stand in the way of progress toward reducing both medium and long-range nuclear weapons...
Reagan's speech used stern words to criticize the Soviets, not only for their treatment of Daniloff, an American journalist arrested in Moscow, but also for their treatment of civilians in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and their insistence on supporting Marxist-Leninist insurrections around the world...
...Reagan cited Daniloff's arrest and his subsequent confinement to Moscow on spy charges as "a particularly disturbing example of Soviet transgressions against human rights. The Soviet Union bears the responsibility for the consequences of its action...
Whatever the lingering mysteries about the Kremlin's motives in the Daniloff case, there is no doubt that the crisis was precipitated by the arrest of their man at the U.N., Gennadi Zakharov. Precisely because they are so obsessive about the clandestine side of their national-security policy, the Soviets take very seriously the task of getting their spies who have been nabbed out of the hands of FBI and CIA debriefers. If retrieving Zakharov meant disrupting the chance of a summit, well, too bad. But first things first. And in this case, as in so many others before, that...