National security adviser Robert C. McFarlane briefed...

National security adviser Robert C. McFarlane briefed Pope John Paul II on the U.S.-Soviet agreement to resume arms control talks and listened to the pontiff’s “very constructive and useful” advice. McFarlane also met with Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi to discuss the two days of U.S.-Soviet negotiations in Geneva this week. McFarlane told a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Rome that the Pope was “very receptive to this new beginning.”