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Gorbachev did not always even hear out the Americans. More than once he listened to just enough of the Russian translation to get the gist, then cut off the translator and launched into a rebuttal. Commented Shultz: "He is accustomed to interrupting and expressing a view. So, when in Moscow, do as those in Moscow do. We interrupted too." It seemed to be "a shouting match," suggested one reporter. Not quite, said Shultz, just a "frank argument." But he left Moscow with no agreement even over whether the President and Gorbachev should issue a joint communiqu?...
...briefly to the summit. Said the President: "I hope my discussions with Mr. Gorbachev in Geneva will be fruitful and will lead to future meetings. We seek peace not only for ourselves but for all those who inhabit this small planet." Translators rendered the speech into 42 languages, including Russian, Ukrainian and other tongues spoken in the U.S.S.R., where Washington estimated the potential shortwave-radio audience at 23.6 million...
...events are deliberately casual. An expert on Soviet culture, steered by Presidential aides, approaches Ronald Reagan at a reception and gently converses with him on the Russian mind. Only later is the conversation buttressed by background papers. Relaxing in the the White House, the President turns on a video recorder and watches images of Eduard Shevardnadze in action, with a voice-over describing his negotiating style. White House aides order in a print of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, the 1981 Oscar-winning romantic comedy about three young Soviet workingwomen who move with their dreams to the big city...
Thus Reagan's preparations have been calculatedly low-keyed. His master briefing book is augmented by two dozen concise background memos, each bound in black vinyl and covering a specific aspect of U.S.S.R. affairs ("Russia's Place in the World: the View from Moscow," "Soviet and Russian Psychology: Some Common Traits"). Aides under Chief White House Kremlinologist John Matlock Jr. are preparing several videotapes, mostly profiling key Soviet participants, including a lengthy one of Gorbachev in public appearances. Although Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko was invited to a presidential lunch recently, one-on-one sit-downs between Reagan and pedagogic experts...
...avoid cluttering his mind with the complexities of a subject. In many ways this contributes to the boldness of his vision, but his blurry collection of ideas and hearsay details can also present problems. In a presummit interview with the BBC, for example, Reagan remarked there was no Russian word for freedom. There is: svoboda. Similarly, Reagan seemed to tell five Soviet journalists that his nuclear defense project would not be deployed before all offensive nuclear missiles on both sides were dismantled. Spokesman Larry Speakes gently categorized the statement to the Washington Post as "presidential imprecision." Asked later whether...