The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
218 THE END OF THE COLD WAR We were so close to an agreement. I think you didn’t want to achieve an agreement anyway. I’m very s ...
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21. THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS The Reykjavik proceedings had started as a ‘pre-summit’ meeting. By the end, everyone was calling ...
222 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Kremlin, he said, had to take the first step. The White House would stand firm by its foreign policy ...
THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS 223 to Iceland completely ill-prepared. She feared that Gorbachëv might succeed in decoupling America ...
224 THE END OF THE COLD WAR effectiveness. Gorbachëv had gone home empty-handed. She cele- brated this outcome.^14 Mitterrand sh ...
THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS 225 Reagan in his eyes was ‘a class enemy’ who had demonstrated his ‘extraordinary primitivism, trogl ...
226 THE END OF THE COLD WAR not mark time after Reykjavik. Ambassador Dubinin talked to Shultz on 14 October 1986. He passed on ...
THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS 227 lecture to the General Staff Academy and proposed a new military doctrine for the USSR. He made t ...
228 THE END OF THE COLD WAR pretended the opposite to Reagan, but when talking to Soviet minis- ters, he admitted that the budge ...
THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS 229 Strategic Defense Initiative. Shultz could not see why the two sides could not at least start to ...
230 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Shultz’s proposals were a delayed reaction to the three-stage scheme that Gorbachëv had announced in ...
THE MONTH OF MUFFLED DRUMS 231 tanks and troops. European experts in the State Department too saw that the Reykjavik proceedings ...
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22. THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED The President experienced a political earthquake in early November 1986 after a Lebanese newspaper ...
236 THE END OF THE COLD WAR his abiding priority to guarantee American military preparedness and pursue the Strategic Defense In ...
THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 237 one asked to go abroad for three months, permission was granted for only four weeks. Was it really ...
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