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Article: An arms offer is accepted. (Soviets ask to reduce intermediate-range missiles)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 16, 1987
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AN ARMS OFFER IS ACCEPTED
For an administration still reelingfrom the political devastation wrought by the Tower Commission, it must have felt like the first bloom of spring. Barely 48 hours after the commission's report sent shock waves through the White House, Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Ronald Reagan had last seen in October grimly leaving the failed Reykjavik summit, sent a message that unexpectedly cheered the besieged President. After more than four months of stalemated negotiations and stale propaganda over arms control, the Soviet leader proposed to ban all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe, an offer not only that Reagan found hard to resist but ...