The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
13. ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR Reagan’s instincts told him that something extraordinary was happen- ing in the Kremlin. Bush an ...
ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 139 Defense Initiative had a disguised aggressive intent. (He failed to see that this was hardly a c ...
140 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Baldrige was scheduled to open negotiations with USSR Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev in Moscow on ...
ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 141 atmosphere of suspicion. Craxi urged him to permit greater flexibility at the Geneva talks. Gorb ...
142 THE END OF THE COLD WAR was talk of treason and a ‘fifth column’. Yet Kataev could not help noticing that Varennikov, unlike ...
ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 143 nadze replied that the USSR truly sought a political resolution to the Afghan war. He denied tha ...
144 THE END OF THE COLD WAR It lasted an hour and a half. Akhromeev and Lieutenant General Nikolai Chervov defended the policy o ...
ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 145 Lynch and Treasury Secretary who had served Reagan as chief of staff since February 1985.^43 Shu ...
146 THE END OF THE COLD WAR impression after contact with politicians and journalists.^48 Casey and Weinberger by contrast liked ...
ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 147 matching them.^56 Reagan and Shevardnadze spoke for three hours, and Shultz told the press that ...
148 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Paris and Washington still further. President Mitterrand had been open about his unhappiness with th ...
ONE FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR 149 pleased him to some extent by saying about the Strategic Defense Initiative: ‘To my mind, this o ...
14. TO GENEVA After Paris, Gorbachëv focused on preparing the ground among Moscow’s traditional allies and friends for the tacti ...
TO GENEVA 151 nuclear weapons of every type, by as much as a half in the first instance. He would offer to untie the question of ...
152 THE END OF THE COLD WAR cancelled purchases of Bulgarian wine despite the predictable damage to Bulgaria’s finances. When Go ...
TO GENEVA 153 the summit.^18 This in turn worried his own friends on the American political right. It would be the President’s f ...
154 THE END OF THE COLD WAR industrial complex. American leaders genuinely wished the super- powers to have stable forces at ‘ra ...
TO GENEVA 155 from his predecessors, but sixty-two per cent of them – according to a Harris poll – believed he could not be trus ...
156 THE END OF THE COLD WAR university in the old part of the city at the southern tip of Lake Geneva. The President had reconno ...
TO GENEVA 157 accompanied by advisers. Reagan saw the point of playing the man rather than the ball, and sought to create a frie ...
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