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...aborted defections prompted Ronald Reagan to suggest that they might be a "maneuver" by the Soviet Union on the eve of the Geneva summit. "Coming as they do together," he told reporters, "you can't rule out the possibility that this might have been a deliberate ploy." But, Reagan candidly admitted, "there is no way we can prove or disprove it." As for Yurchenko, the President acknowledged that he was genuinely confounded. Said Reagan: "I think it's awfully easy for any American to be perplexed by anyone who could live in the United States and would prefer to live...
...state-sponsored terrorism" and accused the U.S. of "hypocrisy" for preaching about human rights yet violating his. As farfetched as his tale was, it provides the Soviets with a handy riposte at home and abroad to undercut Reagan when he brings up Soviet human rights violations at the Geneva summit. "What lawlessness!" commented Pravda after running Yurchenko's account. "And it takes place in a country whose leaders trumpet all over the world about 'democracy' and 'liberties,' who seek to teach everybody how one should observe human rights...
...Washington's view, the timing could hardly have been coincidental. Only weeks before President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev were to meet in Geneva to discuss arms-control proposals, Moscow seemed to be stepping up its controversial arms shipments to Nicaragua. Said a high-ranking U.S. National Security Council official: "They are conveying a message to their allies that while they will be talking to us, they will not drop their friends...
...opinion, and American officials, veterans in the art, will be struggling to put the proper spin on what took place in the first encounter between their two leaders--just as these officials spent the previous week trying to manipulate the expectations. After the 3,000 journalists who converged on Geneva file their final reports, after the last evening broadcasts by Dan Rather and Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw are transmitted from specially built new ground stations, it will be possible once again to get a hotel room and a table in a restaurant--and easier than ever...
...years the world has watched with growing concern every move in the fitful drama of Soviet-American relations. As arms-control talks sputter and arsenals inexorably grow, so do the fears and, perhaps miraculously, so do the hopes. That is why Geneva was destined to be, more than any of the ten summits that have preceded it since the end of World War II, a global extravaganza, an event whose very occurrence transcended in importance whatever might be put on paper...