If Gorbachev Playing Mind Games, It’s ‘Solitaire’--Reagan
WASHINGTON — If Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev is playing mind games over an arms control treaty and superpower summit meeting, “he’s playing solitaire,” President Reagan said today.
Reagan was asked during a picture-taking session with congressional leaders if Gorbachev, in view of his last-minute refusal to set a date for a U.S.-Soviet summit in this country, was playing mind games with him.
“If he is, he’s playing solitaire,” Reagan replied.
On Sunday, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said a U.S.-Soviet summit might not occur in the remaining months of the Reagan Administration if Gorbachev continues to throw roadblocks in the way of an arms control agreement. However, he said he was optimistic. (Story on Page 5.)
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