The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
158 THE END OF THE COLD WAR melted Gorbachëv’s mood somewhat and moved him to say: ‘If now we have laid the first bricks, we hav ...
TO GENEVA 159 job is to show him he and they will be better off if we make some prac- tical agreements, without attempting to co ...
160 THE END OF THE COLD WAR non-aligned countries around the world.^70 This was wishful thinking. Gorbachëv’s trip to Paris had ...
15. PRESENTING THE SOVIET PACKAGE On 28 November 1985 Reagan sent a handwritten letter to Gorbachëv that offered grounds for hop ...
162 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Aristov that the Americans genuinely hoped to strengthen mutual economic links. Though the ban remai ...
PRESENTING THE SOVIET PACKAGE 163 Europe’; the idea was to find ways to boost mutual confidence and pre- vent dangerous operatio ...
164 THE END OF THE COLD WAR opinion; he predicted success with the West Germans and other Euro- peans. The American administrati ...
PRESENTING THE SOVIET PACKAGE 165 Gorbachëv talked about total reductions, but we in the General Staff did not think that this w ...
166 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Akhromeev claimed to have been working on his project for a year and a half. He said that the Politb ...
PRESENTING THE SOVIET PACKAGE 167 the General Staff had bounced the Kremlin into a decision. The feeling was the same in the KGB ...
168 THE END OF THE COLD WAR reduce their stockpiles and liquidate all their tactical nuclear arms (which were defined as having ...
16. AMERICAN REJECTION The American administration received Gorbachëv’s declaration very coolly. His smooth, pacific diction fai ...
170 THE END OF THE COLD WAR anger when he next encountered Dobrynin.^5 He exclaimed that the American administration did not tak ...
AMERICAN REJECTION 171 Defense Secretary Perle had never found it easy to stay silent. He told the American Senior Arms Control ...
172 THE END OF THE COLD WAR pronouncements. He pledged his faith in the Strategic Defense Initia- tive, but this time he said he ...
AMERICAN REJECTION 173 Soviet authorities were also testing a range of cruise missiles and stra- tegic bombers, as the CIA regul ...
174 THE END OF THE COLD WAR arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. Shultz admitted that the Soviet leadership ...
AMERICAN REJECTION 175 Mitterrand warned Gorbachëv by letter that he would get nowhere if he stuck to the idea of confining the ...
176 THE END OF THE COLD WAR All the American agencies agreed that the Soviet economy faced severe difficulties. The disagreement ...
AMERICAN REJECTION 177 Shultz put forward some ideas on how to reduce Soviet meddling in regional trouble spots. Gorbachëv had i ...
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