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Gorbachev arrives in U.S. for 3-day visit
NEW YORK - Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in
New York on Tuesday and said he
hoped his luncheon discussions with
President Reagan and President
elect George Bush would lead to an
“expansion of cooperation” be
tween the superpowers.
Gorbachev made his arrival state
ment in a sun-splashed ceremony at
Kennedy International Airport as
U.S. officials said they were prepar
ing for the possibility of a “grand
gesture” from the Soviet leader to
reduce troop strength in Eastern
Europe.
Gorbachev will blend diplomacy
with sightseeing on a three-day visit
to the United Nations and New York.
He said he hoped his meeting with
Reagan and Bush on Wednesday
would “serve the best interests of the
United States and the Soviet Union,
indeed of all the world.”
“We have not arranged any for
mal agenda, so cither side will be
free openly and frankly to raise any
issues it wishes to,” he said, speak
ing through an interpreter.
It was Gorbachev’s second visit to
the United States in a year, and the
fifth time he has arranged to sit down
with Reagan. The two leaders signed
r
a historic arms reduction treaty dur
ing the Washington summit last year.
For his part, Bush was playing
down his role in Wednesday’s lunch
eon session. He told a news confer
ence in Washington he would attend
in his capacity as vice president, and
without any of the national security
aides he has picked for his incoming
administration.
Last year, Gorbachev came to
Washington. This lime it was New
York, where some of the biggest
headaches were caused by the logis
tics of moving the general secre
tary’s 45-car motorcade through
Manhattan.
He will address the U.N. General
Assembly on Wednesday for the first
time.
Arriving on the tide of his drive to
shake up the Soviet political system
from lop to bottom, Gorbachev sent
advance word that he may offer new
proposals to end the Coid War,
strengthen the United Nations and
improve the world’s environment.
An American official acknowl
edged the possibility of a “grand
gesture,’’ such as a reduction of
Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia and
Hungary. “It is plausible they would
do it on the eve of the opening of
negotiations with the West and also
as a public relations move,” said the
official, who spoke on condition ol
anonymity.
Such a move, in the absence of a
similar move by the United States,
would reduce the Soviet advantage
in conventional forces in Europe and
could facilitate an overall conven
tional force agreement early in the
Bush administration.
As the Kremlin leader headed to
New York, Reagan was briefed by
Secretary of Slate George Shull/,
Colin D. Powell, the national secu
rity adviser, and other While House
officials.
Shull/ and Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Eduard A. Shevardnadze will
meet Wednesday, before the two
presidents sit down for lunch.
New York, in the throes of the
Christmas shopping season, pro
vides an even wider audience for
Gorbachev, and the Soviet leader
plans to do some sight-seeing on
Thursday.
The Communist party leader’s
unabashed purpose is to persuade the
American business community that
perestroika, or economic reconstruc
tion, of the Soviet Union is well
enough launched to hold out the
promise of a bigger trade relation
ship with America.
U.S officials said the Kremlin
had notified them in advance that
apart from the speech Gorbachev’s
main purpose during the visit was to
persuade Reagan to lower American
limits on trade and lending with
communist countries.
The proposals could be imple
mented by greater access to Ameri
can slock and financial markets, as
well as fewer limits on the ability of
organizations such as the Export
Import Bank and World Bank to
underwrite loans to the Soviet Un
ion.
Asked about this at Tuesday’s
White House briefing, presidential
spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said
“the Soviets have talked about loos
ening trade restrictions in the past’’
and said there has been4 4 no change’ ’
in the U.S. position on this issue.
He said “that policy is that we
support trade with the Soviet Union
in commercial areas and support
loans for commercial, non-strategic
uses and have promoted joint ven
tures and things of that sort.”
But “there are restrictions in a
strategic sense,” he said.
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Bush appoints
4 more to fill
key positions
WASHINGTON - Presi
dent-elect George Bush, once
more calling on friends and
government veterans to fill key
positions, on Tuesday selected
Texas oilman Robert
Mosbachcr to be commerce
secretary, named Washington
lawyer Carla Hills as trade rep
resentative and said he would
keep William Webster as CIA
director.
Bush also named Thomas
Pickering, a career diplomat
who is currently U.S. ambassa
dor to Israel, as U.N. ambassa
dor, but said he had decided that
the post would no longer carry
Cabinet-level status.
The vice president, announc
ing his latest choices at a news
conference in thcOld Executive
Office Building, said he was
completing his economic team
with the naming of Stanford
economist Michael Boskin as
chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers.
ousn aiso ioia reporters nc
had decided lo “lake the offen
sive” on coming up with a
budget strategy that attacks
with federal deficit without new
taxes. “It is my responsibility lo
do that. What that means in
terms of form, I am not quite
sure yet,” he said.
On the subject of Wednes
day’s meeting in New York
with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, Bush continued lo
stress that he was going to the
meeting “as vice president”
but indicated that he planned lo
engage in a careful review of
U.S.-Soviet relations once he
takes office on Jan. 20.
“I’m confident they (the
Soviets) know our system well
enough to know that it is only
prudent to review national secu
rity policy, and to review our
relationship with them,” he
said.
“Stay tuned, we’re only
about halfway through this
act,” Bush said as he headed off
stage, The five announcements
were the first in a week; no more
arc expected until after Bush’s
meeting with Gorbachev.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire
Gov. John Sununu, chosen lo be
Bush’s chief of staff, said in a
news conference in Concord,
N.H., that the Defense Depart
ment’s lop echelon would be
named in a batch of as many as
five appointments.
“If it hits five, it would be
unusual, but that’s not an out
landish number lo think about,”
Sununu said.
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