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...could be kept home for an extended stay. But the air is now clearer, and when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visits Washington for talks with Shultz Friday and Saturday, they may find it possible to discuss their original subject: arrangements for a summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev late this year. Though Shultz promised to press for a full release of Daniloff, that subject + no longer seems likely to crowd everything else off the agenda...
...with the imprisonment of Nicholas Daniloff, which jeopardized the prospect of a summit meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The cause seemed absurdly disproportionate to the possible effects: the FBI arrested a Soviet scientist who almost unquestionably was engaged in espionage, and the KGB retaliated by entrapping a U.S. journalist in Moscow who just as unquestionably...
...Pinching Nick served to give the Russians leverage in the release of Zakharov while pinching Western journalists as well," Kondracke said yesterday. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev fears that Western journalists are ruining his reformer image by reporting news contrary to party line, he added...
...ticklish drama could hardly have come at a more sensitive time for Soviet-American relations. Even as the controversy unfolded, Soviet officials were in Washington for talks that could pave the way for a second summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev later this year. Those discussions went ahead as scheduled, and plans are still under way for a meeting in Washington next week between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. But U.S. officials hinted last week that the Daniloff affair, if not resolved, could endanger the possibility of a summit...
...comedy, timing is everything, and the timing of the report leaked by Administration officials raised strong suspicions that the real reason behind it was superpower politics: a holding action to keep alive the somewhat shaky prospects for a summit meeting this fall between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...