Jockeying over Geneva positions
The President is committed to getting results," declared National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. "We will be both flexible and constructive." Promised Soviet Leader Konstantin U. Chernenko: There are no preconditions, and the Soviet Union is willing to discuss all nuclear weapons systems.
Those upbeat sounds last week were designed to create a favorable atmosphere for the meeting on Jan. 7 and 8 in Geneva between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, at which the two will try to set the agenda for a resumption of...