The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
238 THE END OF THE COLD WAR December 1986, he asked how to kick-start the arms talks again with Reagan. Ambassador Dubinin repea ...
THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 239 nobody but Gorbachëv would benefit from such an outcome. Shultz wearily concluded that ‘the ultima ...
240 THE END OF THE COLD WAR State Department and the National Security Council about the possi- bility that Whitehead’s tours mi ...
THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 241 mation from Defense Initiative officials who overstated what could soon be achieved. Johnson remar ...
242 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Gorbachëv hardly knew what hit him at the next Politburo on 26 February. After itemizing the problem ...
THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 243 Although Gromyko had led the way in arguing the case at the Politburo, he was a declining force. W ...
244 THE END OF THE COLD WAR grain from Midwest farmers.^50 Fresh talks on the subject took place from February 1987.^51 Since th ...
THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 245 consume. Gorbachëv had made light of America’s objections about Soviet espionage: ‘You know about ...
246 THE END OF THE COLD WAR earlier years he might have been intercepted and shot down; but when the higher defence authorities ...
THE SOVIET PACKAGE UNTIED 247 insisted that there was nothing wrong with the technical equipment available to the defence agenci ...
248 THE END OF THE COLD WAR by telling his officials to ‘prepare the question without worrying about the General Staff ’.^69 He ...
23. THE BIG FOUR A remarkable quartet was powering the rapprochement in world poli- tics. On the American side were Reagan and S ...
250 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Reagan baffled people in his own administration, not to mention the Soviet leadership. Gorbachëv and ...
THE BIG FOUR 251 one of his trips to Moscow, in April 1987, Shultz attended a Jewish seder. Gorbachëv barked at him: ‘You live i ...
252 THE END OF THE COLD WAR ‘Perhaps I should have stayed in Hollywood.’ Shevardnadze replied: ‘But then there would be no treat ...
THE BIG FOUR 253 mentalities more than with organized opposition; he ruefully added: ‘It’s more difficult to operate in conditio ...
254 THE END OF THE COLD WAR her packet of wet mini-wipes afterwards. The American side described this as her Pontius Pilate synd ...
THE BIG FOUR 255 ‘more realistic’ viewpoint on international relations than Reagan’s other leading officials.^49 In September 19 ...
256 THE END OF THE COLD WAR audience in America. Gorbachëv took the criticism in good part, laughing and pumping Shultz’s hand.^ ...
THE BIG FOUR 257 In April 1988 Shultz tried again by telling Gorbachëv that the Ameri- cans had forty-eight times as many comput ...
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