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Just hours after the Geneva negotiators disbanded, new Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev all but accused Washington of having entered the new round in bad faith. Gorbachev said the first round "already provides grounds to say that Washington does not seek agreement with the Soviet Union," in part because "it refuses in general to discuss the question of preventing the arms race from spreading to space...
Then when Andropov came along, I practically lost my breakfast when I read some of that sappy stuff about him in the morning papers--how he liked Western pop music and so on. Now we're hearing about how Mikhail Gorbachev has good eye contact and a firm handshake and a good sense of humor and how his wife wears stylish shoes. Just because Gorbachev uses charm does not mean he is going to be swayed by it. And as for this facade about a modern, Western- style technocrat--it's just that, a facade...
Pakistani officials suggest that the situation along the frontier has worsened since President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq met last month in Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev, the new Soviet leader, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Zia was told by the Soviets that Pakistan's policy toward Afghanistan --collaboration with the resistance and cooperation with the U.S.--could cause the relationship between Moscow and Islamabad to deteriorate. Though that line was not new, Zia was said to have been shaken by the conversation...
...month Ronald Reagan had been playing something of an unaccustomed role: the overanxious suitor. At nearly every opportunity, he betrayed his eagerness to meet with his Soviet counterpart. Two days after Mikhail Gorbachev was named Soviet Communist Party leader, Reagan invited him to a tete-a-tete in the U.S. The President's desire did not diminish even after a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. officer in East Germany. Said Reagan in a Washington Post interview following the shooting: "I want a meeting even more so, to sit down and look someone in the eye . . . to make sure...
That means the time may have come for the diplomats. A number of Western experts believe Mikhail Gorbachev is looking for a face-saving settlement in Afghanistan. In Nicaragua, continued American support for the contras might eventually force the Sandinistas to accept a peace plan along the lines of one put forward by Opposition Leader Arturo Cruz. He calls for a cease-fire in exchange for new elections and democratic guarantees. A settlement should also provide for a reduction in the Nicaraguan armed forces and limitations on Soviet and Cuban arms. The U.S. is not likely to ease...