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...surprising new U.S. offer reflected the intensity with which both sides are maneuvering in advance of the long-awaited first summit between Reagan and Soviet Communist Party Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev, set for Nov. 19 and 20. The President authorized the latest proposal just a week after he had tried, in his speech to the U.N., to shift the focus of world attention to issues like regional conflicts. He also gave an interview to five Soviet journalists--the first such session since John Kennedy spoke with an Izvestiya editor in 1961 --sat for questions from the BBC and held a hastily...
...Harvard professors were among six experts on Soviet affairs who briefed President Reagan yesterday afternoon in preparation for his upcoming meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Soviet goals. Mikhail Gorbachev would like to come back from the Geneva summit with some kind of detente. They need some restrictions on their massive ; defense projects, which have become a burden on their economy. Even so, they not only have a missile-defense system that encircles Moscow; they have a production line ready to build the components to extend that system around the country, rather rapidly...
...quite. While legal experts in the State, Defense and Justice Departments had accepted the Pentagon interpretation even before McFarlane spoke, U.S. diplomats and NATO allies were appalled. They protested that the Administration position, coming only weeks before next month's Geneva summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, would doom any chance for negotiating an arms-control agreement. Shultz suggested to the White House that if McFarlane was making policy for so sensitive a matter on television, then Reagan would seem to have no need for a Secretary of State...
Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week shoved aside some of the last of the Kremlin's tired old men and unveiled his economic blueprint for the rest of the century. That document predicts a dramatic 6% annual rate of economic growth (vs. last year's 3.8%) through sharply increased productivity. The drafting was no easy task, Gorbachev told a meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee, because "not all of our managers have broken away from inertia, from old approaches." One such mossback, presumably, was 74-year-old Nikolai Baibakov, who was ousted as the head of Gosplan...