'STAR WARS' EYED AS BARGAINING CHIP

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2012
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: September 15, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
15 September 1985
`Star Wars' Eyed as
Bargai~bijChij
Reagan Reported Far From Decision on Central Arms. Talk Issue
By Don Oberdorfer
and David Hoffman
Washington Post Staff Writers
The Reagan administration has
begun internal discussions of
whethee' President Raab; fil-
Nov. 19.20' suma*," ing with
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
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r W defense retm for
Moscow's approval of deep cuts in
the superpowers' offensive nuclear
forces..
Administration sources said Rea-
gan is far from a decision on this
central issue in the U.S.-Soviet di-
alogue, whether to limit his plan for
a strategic defense against nuclear
missiles. Although some U.S. strat-
egists favor swapping Star Wars
restrictions for deep cuts, others-
particularly in the Defense Depart-
ment-have adamantly opposed
such a deal.
With a little more than nine
weeks left before the first U.S.-So-
viet summit meeting in over six
years, perhaps the most surprising
thing emerging from interviews
with several officials is that Rea-
gan's approach to this-linchpin arms
issue is still unknown.
The impending U.S. visit of the
new Soviet foreign minister,
Eduard Shevardnadze, may have an
important bearing on the outcome1
Soviet sources said Shevardnadze,
who is due to arrive in New York
late this week, is expected to bring
details of Moscow's arms control
proposals to Reagan and Secretary
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