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Wednesday, October 1, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
U.S., Soviet actions show mutual need to meet
United Press International
WASHINGTON — the resolution of the Nicholas Daniloff case and subsequent announcement of a mini-summit in Iceland showed the extent to which President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev want — or need — to meet again.
In the end, with the Daniileff affair casting a long shadow over their plans for another superpower summit and prospects for arms control, both sides blinked. Their true priorities, veiled by months of posturing, were bared.
The news that Reagan and Gorbachev will meet Oct. 11-12 in Reykjavik thrust more than a month of heightened U.S.-Soviet tension into the background. The apparent sense of relief suggested both sides were desperate for a summit.
Reagan's priorities were evident from the outset. He waited for days to brand Daniloff's
arrest an outrage. Senior officials ruled out a trade for alleged Soviet spy Gennadii Zakharov but kept the door open for a deal.
Gorbachev's position had been less clear. While Reagan suggested Gorbachev needed improved relations to focus inward on the ill Soviet economy, his early response to demands that Daniloff be freed did not encourage the White House.
But as the standoff dragged on, glimmers of optimism — about prospects for a Reagan-Gorbache meeting, arms control and solutions to the immediate problems at hand — emerged not from a summit-obsessed White House, but from the Soviet side.
The complex resolution that began playing out Monday, when Danloff and his wife, Ruth, boarded a flight to the West, and continued yesterday with the release of Zakharov, required concessions by Washington and Moscow — made for the sake of a Reagan-Gorbachev tete-a-tete if not
in the name of superpower summitry
The Soviets agreed to release Dandiloff without trial and to do so 24 hours before a change of plea by Zakharov cleared the way for his return to Moscow.
The time difference enabled Washington to claim no direct trade had been made when, in fact, the Soviets had succeeded in linking
Analysis
Daniloff and Zakharov. The Soviet offer to release dissident Yuri Orlov — and possibly others — gave the United States a basis for releasing Zakharov.
releasing Denials notwithstanding, Shultz made clear the United States paid an additional price: some temporary retreat from its order that 25 members of the Soviet U.N. mission staff — all alleged to work for Soviet intelligence — leave the United States by today.
It was no oversight that Shultz declined to say yesterday that Daniolff had been released unconditionally. Reagan, who gloated Monday that the Soviets were the ones who "blinked," was repentant yesterday when asked the same question.
"'shouldn't have said that.'" he said.
Asked about this apparent turnabout, he offered a semantic explanation.
In agreeing to a superpower rendezvous in Iceland, Reagan accepted an invitation he'd rejected at least twice before — for talks in neutral territory — and at a time of year when he had said the crush of campaigning for the fall elections would preclude him from attending.
"This is not a summit," he said, but a meeting that "will take place in the context or preparations for the general secretary's visit to the United States which was agreed to at Geneva in November of '85."
Officials emphasized that the meeting in
Iceland in no way would substitute for a summit in Washington. And while time is running out and Gorbachev has yet to commit to a date, the officials said a summit by the end of the year remains possible.
Gorbachev's proposal for an interim meeting in feeland, preparatory to a full-scale summit in the United States, was contained in a letter delivered to Reagan Sept. 19 by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
Despite public rancor over the Daniloff and Zakharov cases, the two sides were working in private to improve relations on a number of fronts.
Where and when the breakthrough may come is not certain. But Shultz, taking note of a great change in negotiating positions, said there were reasonable prospects that the framework for an interim agreement on reductions in medium-range missiles could emerge in Iceland.
Explanations of case differ
United Press International
WASHINGTON — After a week of high-level diplomacy, high-ranking officials from United States and the Soviet Union differed yesterday on the meetings' results.
In simultaneous news conferences,
Secretary of State George Shultz,
in Washington, and Soviet foreign
minister Eduard Shevardnadze,
in New York, finally lifted some of the
secrecy over their 20 hours of talks in
New York over the past week.
The most visible result was U.S. reporter Nicholas Danielfo was permitted to leave the Soviet Union, without being put on trial for espionage charges, and Gennadiy Zakharov, was allowed to plead no contest to spying charges in New York and allowed to leave the country.
country.
Daniloff arrived in the United States minutes after Zakharov left for Moscow.
Shevardnadze shrugged off the apparent differences between the two cases, while Shultz emphasized Danielf was freed without a trial.
In New York, Shevardnadze said, "It is not useful to urge." He said that both men left for their homelands, and he added, "It is a fair solution that reflects the sentiments of our people."
Shultz insisted the United States was sticking by its basic order that 25 Soviet United Nations Mission employees will have to leave the United States, as ordered by the State Department, because of their espionage activities.
Shevardandze, in his news conference, described the order as illegal and said no proof had been offered. He also said the Soviet Union was prepared to take reprisals in response to the U.S. action, but the standoff on that issue was temporarily put aside by Shultz announcing that the Soviets would be given a two-week extension on the expulsion order.
Shewardnadze responded by saying Soviet retaliation would be delayed until after a interim summit in Iceland Oct 11-12 between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Even on the agreement by the Soviets to permit the emigration of Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov, one of the founding members of the Soviet Helsinki Watch Committee, there was a clear difference of perception.
Shultz said that Orlov, a Soviet physicist and human rights activist who was sentenced to prison in 1978 and exiled to Siberia in 1984, would be allowed to emigrate to the United States with his wife by Oct. 7.
Shewardnadze minimized the concessions by mentioning that a U.S. citizen had just applied for asylum in the Soviet Union and that the Soviet Embassy in Washington had hundreds of other applications from U.S. citizens who want to live in the Soviet Union.
Tass mentions Daniloff's release
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union made its first official mention yesterday of the release of U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniello, saying he had been expelled from the country. A state newspaper called him a spy.
"The correspondent of the American magazine U.S. News & World Report, Nicholas Daniloff, who, as it has been already reported had been detained by Soviet competent bodies for impermissible activity, was expelled from the Soviet Union on Sept. 29." the Soviet news agency Tass said.
a U.S.-Soviet summit and release of an accused Spy spy arrested in the United States — were carried within minutes by all Soviet media.
The state-run press on Monday did not mention Daniiloff's departure from the Soviet Union. But yesterday's announcements about the deal to free Daniiloff — including plans for
The newspaper Soviet Russia called Daniloff an "agent of U.S. intelligence, screened by a correspondent's certificate.
The newspaper said Daniloff was one of many U.S. journalists working as spies around the world rather than being a victim of Soviet police.
"A real propaganda war was waged by the U.S. administration and the mass media of this country (United States) in connection with the detention in Moscow of a CIA agent, N. Damloff."
Damillo denied the charges, and U.S. officials said his arrest Aug. 30 was a setup.
power summit came less than 22 hours after the Soviet Union allowed Daniloff to return to the United States.
The announcement of a super-
"It has been agreed that the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev, and President Ronald Reagan of the United States will meet in Reykjavik (Iceland) on Oct. 11-12." Tass said.
"The meeting was proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev and accepted by Ronald Reagan."
The summit had been blocked by the Soviet espionage charges against Daniloff.
Tass said the summit would be conducted within the framework of preparations for Gorbachev's visit to the United States.
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