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...writing and now tabled in Geneva," said a senior White House official. The U.S. proposal has two parts: start by eliminating half of all strategic warheads and delivery vehicles; scrap all ballistic missiles by 1996. The firmness of Soviet intentions to link any agreement to restrictions on SDI should become clearer this week, when Secretary of State George Shultz meets in Vienna with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...could see in Reykjavik that it came down to SDI," the President recounted. "I made a proposal to (Gorbachev) that if we got the SDI shield then, with the Soviet Union sharing that, we could eventually sign a treaty to eliminate all ballistic missiles...
...hassling me, I could see he was trying to find a way to sink SDI. I tried everything I could think of, even a little Russian, an old Russian proverb that means 'trust but verify.' All the chips were on SDI. The restrictions that the Secretary wanted would kill SDI...
...President. "All of a sudden he is interrupting, and he says, 'Why just ballistic missiles? What would you say if we included all of them, bombs, artillery shells, everything?' And I said, 'O.K., we'll talk about everything, we can do that.' But then he came back to SDI, and that...
That Reagan may have wandered farther into his golden vision of a world without nuclear weapons and Gorbachev misunderstood is likely. The President has done this on other occasions in the past. That his mind would have caught up soon, even without the jolt he got on SDI, is also likely. Certainly the world's nervous kibitzers would have pulled up short -- and have...