Gorbachev, in Paris, Plans to Reveal Details of Soviet Nuclear Proposals Today

Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, on a pre-summit trip to France, will make public details of his new arms controls proposals here today, a Soviet spokesman said Wednesday.

Gorbachev’s decision to talk about the Soviet bargaining position in negotiations with the United States in Geneva was the latest in a series of maneuvers before his Nov. 19-20 meeting with President Reagan in the Swiss city.

The Soviet plan, reportedly calling for reductions of 50% in nuclear weapons and the scrapping of Reagan’s “Star Wars” space defense program, was presented to U.S. arms control negotiators this week after having been outlined in a letter that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze gave to Reagan last Friday. However, no details of the plan have been officially disclosed.

Leonid M. Zamyatin, a top Kremlin spokesman on international affairs, said Gorbachev will describe the Soviet proposals to members of the French National Assembly and that reporters will be given copies of his speech.

No Official Response

Zamyatin said there has been no official American response in Geneva to the new proposal except for a statement by an U.S. negotiator that it will be studied.

Reagan, speaking in general terms, said Saturday that he welcomed the Soviet offer. However, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said Sunday that portions of the proposal appeared to be “unacceptable.”

Gorbachev, whose visit to Paris was described as “Operation Seduction” by a headline in the influential French newspaper Le Monde, apparently hopes to get Western European backing for the Soviet position before he meets with Reagan.

He renewed his attack on the “Star Wars” program during the formal welcoming ceremony arranged by French President Francois Mitterrand at Orly Airport. At a glittering dinner in the Elysee Palace, the Soviet leader, speaking in response to Mitterrand’s toast, again assailed the United States.

Speaking of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks in Geneva, Gorbachev said, “By a whole series of initiatives in recent months, and especially by unilateral measures, the Soviet Union has demonstrated that it is ready for reasonable compromises, and it awaits an adequate reaction.”

He said world leaders should listen to each other and try to find lines of convergence, balance their interests and develop a minimum level of mutual confidence. “We hope that the meeting with President Reagan in Geneva will develop in this same spirit also,” he added.

But, speaking of “Star Wars,” Gorbachev deplored “an attempt to transfer the military rivalry to outer space--as if there wasn’t enough of it on Earth. . . . If the instigators of this enterprise continue on their perilous course, the world will be in for a tough time.”

Earlier, Gorbachev met privately with Mitterrand, and Zamyatin said afterwards that the Soviet leader stressed the importance of restoring detente and the prevention of the militarization of space.

The two men reportedly discussed the prospects for achieving major reductions in nuclear arsenals, according to a spokesman for Mitterrand. They met for 2 hours and 15 minutes and plan another private talk during the four-day visit.

Trade Discussions

Aside from such cosmic problems as nuclear armaments and space-based defense systems, the French are also hoping that Mitterrand will be able to arrange to sell more French goods to the Soviet Union, thereby reducing this country’s large trade deficit with Moscow.

Gorbachev, making his first trip to the West since taking power in the Kremlin last March, is accompanied by his wife, Raisa, and by Shevardnadze.

Mitterrand, in his dinner speech Wednesday night, expressed hope that the two superpowers would reach a reasonable compromise in Geneva and recalled the high hopes for peaceful progress in space that were raised by the first manned space flight--by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin--and by the Soviet-American Apollo flight a decade ago.

No Communique Issued

The French president, who reportedly did not want to embrace Gorbachev’s position on “Star Wars” despite his own skepticism about the American space-based missile defense plan, refused to agree to issuance of a communique after he met privately with Gorbachev, apparently in order to avoid any joint statement on the matter.

But Mitterrand and Gorbachev have agreed to hold a joint news conference Friday. The Soviet leader will return to Moscow on Saturday.

At Wednesday’s arrival ceremony, both men recalled the historic ties between France and the Soviet Union.

Raisa Gorbachev was welcomed warmly by Mitterrand and his wife, Danielle. The women sat on gilded chairs holding bouquets as their husbands spoke.