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Gromyko also said he told Secretary of State George P. Shultz during their meeting in Geneva last week that continued deployment of NATO medium-range missiles in Western Europe could jeopardize chances for success at the news arms control talks...
...joint statement issued by Shultz and Gromyko after the January 7-8 conference announced that the superpowers would set a date within one month to start negotiations encompassing strategic and medium-range nuclear missiles and space-based weapons...
...George Shultz and Andrei Gromyko arrived in Geneva this past weekend, one question hanging over their eagerly awaited two-day meeting was this: What could the U.S. Secretary of State find to say that the Soviet Foreign Minister, who is fluent in English, could not have learned in advance from the American press? Well before the talks were scheduled to begin on Monday, the White House spelled out in detail the stand that President Reagan had instructed Shultz to take. The key element: the U.S. would not even consider any slowing of its efforts to develop a Star Wars antimissile...
...other respects also, the U.S. position appeared so hard-line as to raise considerable doubt that new arms-control talks could make much progress, even if Shultz and Gromyko fulfilled the stated purpose of their talks and agreed on procedures for resuming substantive negotiations. As outlined last week in "background" briefings by "senior Administration officials" whose identity was hardly a secret--National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane put part of one briefing on the record--Shultz's instructions were to make three presentations...
...will strongly protest alleged Soviet violations of existing arms- control treaties. In particular, Shultz was supposed to tell Gromyko that the giant radar station the Soviets are building near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia is "a dagger pointed at the heart of arms control." The U.S. considers the installation to be a step toward development of a nationwide system of antiballistic-missile defenses forbidden by a 1972 treaty. An Administration official elaborated that the U.S. must be assured of Moscow's compliance with past treaties if it is to have any "confidence we can conclude a satisfactory agreement in the future...