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...line is simply to insist that Soviet negotiators spell out all the small print in Gorbachev's proposals. So far as it goes, that is logical. For all its ambiguities and propagandistic sweep, the plan hints at enough concessions to spur serious negotiating. Only detailed probing at Geneva will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come...
...backed away when the Soviets balked.) Moscow walked out on the negotiations in late 1983 in reaction to the U.S. deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, but spurred by the desire to prevent Reagan from proceeding with his Strategic Defense Initiative, it returned to Geneva early last year to open a new round of negotiations...
...Administration's attentiveness to abuses in friendly regimes was underscored last week when it presented a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva condemning violent acts of repression by Augusto Pinochet's military junta in Chile. It was the Administration's strongest stand to date against the regime, which came to power 13 years ago. The same day, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker implied that the U.S. favored black "majority rule" in South Africa and called guerrillas in the African National Congress "freedom fighters," a term Reagan has used only for anti-Communist insurgents. But when Crocker...
Before he went to Geneva last year to meet with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan broadcast a brief message on television and radio to the people of the world. In the Voice of America studio during the preparations, a slight, bearded figure hovered at the elbow of the President...
Morris went on to Geneva with Reagan, deliberately taking a hotel room far from the presidential party so he could sort out his thoughts in cool independence. But he still had the rare privilege of drifting in and out of the summit events. Morris delighted in what he calls "the whole ballet of power" played out when Gorbachev arrived for the first meeting. Reagan came down the steps without his overcoat. Gorbachev drove up in hat and coat. Reagan was utterly at ease. Gorbachev was tentative. Reagan, the host, gently maneuvered his guest. Morris sensed that Reagan had taken charge...