communiques. whatever comes from the summit will be what we develop while we re there. after 70 minutes with advisers, mr. reagan invited gorbachev to stroll the garden to the pool house where they sat alone before a fire. mr. reagan talked without notes, not about arms control but about of his personal feelings about reducing the level of fear and misunderstanding between the two nations. the main thing is they met each other as human beings, reagan, in particular, had concentrated his attention on gorbachev as a person. he spent more time studying gorbachev than he did the esoteric things having to do with arms control. it is understood the president tried to dispel gorbachev s negative image of the u.s. gorbachev wouldn t budge but he was not nearly as combative as he s been with other american officials recently. is it a good sign? of course. i would think so. i was at lunch when ronald reagan came out of the first meeting with mikhail gorbachev and he said this is a
they sat alone before a fire. mr. reagan talk without notes, not about arms control but of his personal feelings about reducing the level of fear and misunderstanding between the two nations. the main thing was they met each other as human beings, reagan, in particular, had concentrated his attention on gorbachev as a person. he spent more time studying gorbachev than he did the esoteric things having to do with arms control. it is understood the president tried to dispel gorbachev s negative image of the u.s. gorbachev wouldn t budge but he was not nearly as combative as he was with other officials recently. is it a good sign? of course. i would think so. i was at lunch when ronald reagan came out of the first meeting with mikhail gorbachev and he said this is a new type of soviet leader. the president announced gorbachev will visit the u.s. next year and they agreed to accelerate arms talks. but the soviet leader was more negative.
military modernization program. it s something that vladimir putin has pressed quite hard within the russian military. the actual reference and in march ahead of russia s presidential electronic are election are part of way to let united states know that russia is in arms talks. they want to make sure there s robust process here. it s also kind of a threat and reminder that in their view if the situation goes up addressed we could be entering a much more dangerous situation in the future. talked about veil threats or not, the president was happy to go right back at vladimir putin in what he said about what s beginning to happen if they don t make progress here. with that being said for that doesn t work out, i ll be the worst enemy he s ever had.
next year and that they agreed to accelerate the arms talks. but the soefiest leader was more negative. the solving of the most important problem concerning the arms race and increasing hopes of peace, we didn t succeed in reaching at this meeting. so of course there are important disagreements on matters of principle that remain between us. the general feeling here is that president reagan deserves credit for starting a dialogue with soviet leader gorbachev, that, in the nuclear age, any lessening of tension must be applauded. but many pronounced the summit only a modest success because it failed to achieve significant progress on arms control. the first word that something was seriously wrong came from this power plant in eastern sweden where workers coming on the job registered abnormally high levels of radiation on their bodies. as tests were conducted, similar