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A. The world needs an arms agreement; the international environment needs it. We're in the process of completing our preparations for such discussions. We have given it a great deal more thought than perhaps may have been the case in the past. We don't want to go to Moscow or to Geneva, or to wherever the talks will be, with proposals that are not serious and meaningful, and that do not involve substantial reductions in the threat—the growth of nuclear armaments.
Q. What is your reaction to reports that unnamed staffers at the White House are undercutting your position?
A. I have no comment. Please write that.