NEW DETENTE IS REAGAN'S AIM AT SUMMIT

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• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 8, 1985
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NEti YC'PJ3 POST
8 April 1985
NEW DETENTE IS REAGAN'S
SANTA BARBARA. Cal..
- President Reagan
hopes to persuade .new
Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev to sign a
"declaration of princi-
ples" when they meet
next fall, The Post has
learned.
Such an agreement-
would add up to peace-
ful coexistence between
the two superpowers.
Senior administration
officials said yesterday
that work has begun in
the White House on an
agenda following Gor-
bachev's acceptance of a
summit meeting with
Reagan later this year.
Officials expect that
Reagan's first face-to-
face meeting with a
Soviet leader will take
place in New York or
Washington this fall. tente., _ -
robably will coin-
It
p
cide with ceremonies Ironically"' Reagan
commemorating the and his conservative
40th anniversary of the supporters used to lam-
United Nations. baste that term as well
Reagan's policy of re- as the policy. that
iecting a "get-ac- But officia~d~ by
qualnted session" still. Reagan, p
stands, officials say, as First Lady Nancy Rea-
does his view that a gan, has had a change of
summit' must produce mind on the issue and
concrete results. .. believes that establish-
But the administra- ing peace with, the
tion does not anticipate Soviet Union is his way
that the arms control Into the history books.
talks now taking place But the question. of
in Geneva will bear fruit how far the, V.S. should
in time for the two lead- go to end the Cold War
'~Ers to etgn-an art:ee eons- ~pt?thr-per ?e
has started a major de-
bate within the adminis-
tration.
Conservatives led b
Defense cretar ar-
ar eS n er r and
Director am
are known to be ut-
r e over t e handli
o e s oot o S.
2 'irnrtur
cholsor in East er
many ast month.
They are circulating a
cable sent by Shultz to
U.S. ambassadors in Eu-
rope detailing how far
the U.S. went to try to
downplay the March 24
slaying of Nicholson.
- NILES LATUEM
MIKHAIL GORdACHEV
"Dodaration" -Yht?
AIM AT SUMMIT
trol accord by the fall.
A group headed by
Secretary of . State
George Shultz and Na-
tional Security Advisor
Robert McFarlane is
working on a summit
agenda that includes the
signing of a "declara-
tion of principles" simi-.
lar to the one signed by
former President Nixon
and Soviet leader Leo-
nid Brezhnev when they
met in Moscow in 1972.
That declaration, in
which both sides agreed
to principles of peaceful
coexistence, mutual re-
straint and regular
bilateral negotiations,
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