U.S. AND SOVIET TO PAVE WAY TO SUMMIT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: April 8, 1986
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NEW YORK TIMES
8 April 1986
U.S. and Soviet to Pave Way to Summit
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Special to The New Tor* Times
WASHINGTON, April 7? Secretary
of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet
Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevard-
nadze, will probably meet in Washing-
ton in the second half of May to prepare
the way for a summit meeting that
could be held in July, Reagan Adminis-
tration officials said today.
The decision to proceed with summit
planning came against a background of
recriminations between the two coun-
tries in recent months. American offi-
cials said they hoped this might indi-
cate a more constructive relationship.
The officials Said Mr. Shultz and Vice
Mm. John M. Poindexter, the national
security adviser, met for breakfast this
. morning at the State Department with
Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the departing
Soviet envoy, to discuss a date for the
Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting.
That meeting in turn would prepare
for the meeting between President
Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the
Soviet leader. No date has been set for
that meeting, but it could occur in July.
Administration officials said.
Dobrynin to Meet With Reagan
In keeping with Mr. Shultz's recent
' request for a return to private diploma.
cy, few details of the breakfast meeting
were made known. Mr. Dobrynin is to
meet with Mr, Reagan at the White
House on Tuesday morning, and it is
possible that an announcement on the
Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting might be
made afterward, officials said.
A United States underground nuclear
explosion is also due to be detonated at
the Nevada test site on Tuesday, State
Department officials said. Mr. Gorba-
chev has said the Soviet moratorium on
testing nuclear devices would end when
the next American nuclear device is ex-
ploded. Washington has rejected his
proposal for a complete ban on such ex-
plosions.
Because of a delay of months in
agreeing on a summit date, the matter
has taken on symbolic significance
here as a test of Soviet-American rela-
tions.
At the close of the summit meeting in
Geneva last November, the two leaders
agreed to meet in 1986 in the United
States and in 1987 in the Soviet Union.
Mr. Reagan said Mr. Gorbachev had
I consented to come in June. But the re-
peated failure of Moscow to set the date
officially led the White House to be-
come irritated, and to raise questions
about Mr. Gorbachev's willingness to
live up to a commitment.
Shultz's Schedule
In the talks today with Mr. Dobrynin,
the focus was on the "window" be-
tween Mr. Shultz's return from a trip to
Asia on May 11 and his departure for a
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
foreign ministers' meeting in Halifax
on May 30, Administration officials
said. Mr. Shultz had first invited Mr.
Shevardnadze to come to Washington
in January and then in March, but
never received a reply.
The White House said it was ex-
pected that Mr. Shultz and Mr. She-
vardnadze would discuss the timing
and contents of the long-awaited sec-
ond summit meeting between Mr. Rea-
gan and Mr. Gorbachev.
The White House has been pressing
for Mr. Gorbachev to come here no
later than July, and State Department
officials said today that if Mr. Shevard-
nadze met with Mr. Shultz next month,
a July date for the summit meeting
was still possible.
Mr. Reagan, in addition to official
talks in Washington, would like to show
Mr. Gorbachev parts of the rest of the
country, Administration officials said.
He has often said there could be an eas-
ing in Soviet-American relations if Mr.
Gorbachev could get a better under-
standing of this country.
The Soviet leader has never been
here. He visited Canada several years
ago when he was the Communist Party
secretary in charge of agriculture.
Some Months Are Inconvenient
The Administration has said that be-
cause of vacation schedules, August
was not a good month for the summit
meeting. It does not want September
because of a pressing legislative calen-
dar, or October because of the Congres-
sional election campaigns. This means
that if the summit meeting is not held
by the end of July, it might not occur
until late Ndvember or early Decem-
ber at the earliest.
Mr. Dobrynin, who has been named
to the Soviet leadership as the Commu-
nist Party secretary in charge of for-
eign relations with non-Communist
countries, returned here Friday night
for several days of farewells, after 24
years as envoy to Washington.
On Wednesday, Mr. Shultz is to give
a lunch in his honor and attend a recep-
tion at the Soviet Embassy that night is
which Mr. Dobrynin, who was the
doyen of the diplomatic corps, will pay
his respects to the diplomats here.
Meanwhile, the State Department
distanced itself from remarks by Wil-
liam J. Casey, the Director of Central
Intelligence, on Sunday. In a sha I
sseech to the can s-
rael Affairs 'Committee Mr.
...asey Lumen the soviet
Union to sup-
port for terrorist groups.
Today, Bernard Kalb, the State De-
partment spokesman, said that while
the Administration believed Moscow
had given "indirect support" to groups
linked to terrorism, "in contrast to
Iran, Syria and Libya, we have no evi-
dence of the Soviets' directly planning
or orchestrating terrorist, acts by Mid-
dle Eastern, West European or Latin
American groups."
Mr. Kalb also noted that Mr. Gorba-
chev, in his report to the Soviet Com-
munist Party congress in February,
"condemned terrorism" and said Mos-
'cow was prepared tacooperate in inter-
national efforts to combat it.
"We believe that urgent and con-
certed international action is needed tc
combat terrorism," he said. "We
would regard as constructive and wel-
come Soviet willingness to take practi-
cal measures to combat international
terrorism."
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