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...offense; we think a little more. We know that they have not only done a lot of research, but done some testing and development in the use of lasers for the destruction of missiles, and we have not. I think they want to maintain a monopoly. (Soviet Leader Mikhail) Gorbachev said almost as much in Paris. He said we have quite enough arms competition on the ground, and we do not want to have it in space. The President is aware that it could be destabilizing if you give one side a shield that the other could not penetrate...
...deliver arms control from the realm of rhetoric to the real business of negotiated give-and-take over numbers and weapons. After months of stonewalling at the talks that began in Geneva in March, the Kremlin had at last presented a specific offer, one foreshadowed by Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a letter to President Reagan a few days earlier. The prospect of serious bargaining, however, did nothing to halt the war of words. On a highly publicized visit to France, Gorbachev played the familiar Soviet game of trying to divide the Western alliance. He offered to cut side deals...
...three months in office, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge...
...announcement from the Soviet news agency TASS was deferential in tone. Nikolai Tikhonov, it said late last week, had resigned as Premier of the U.S.S.R. In a letter to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, TASS reported, the 80-year-old Politburo member, who has held the premiership since 1980, declared that his health had "considerably deteriorated lately" and his doctors suggested retirement. Named to replace Tikhonov was Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, a rapidly rising star who was appointed to the ruling Politburo only last April. He is its second-youngest member after Gorbachev...
They looked up one day last week in the White House and discovered they were in another political campaign, this one a global face-off with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev as the other candidate...