Arms Talks Resume in Geneva

Soviet and American arms control negotiators met today for the first time since the Iceland summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

“We’ve got a very sharp pencil, we’ve got lots of paper and we’re ready to work,” U.S. negotiator Max Kampelman told reporters before the session began. Viktor Karpov, the chief Soviet delegate, was touring West European capitals and was not to return to Geneva before next week. His deputy, Yuri Kusnetsov, refused to speak to reporters as he entered the U.S. mission.