Bush-Gorbachev Summit in Malta
When Bush and Gorbachev meet they plan to have an unstructured agenda. Why not structure it? Why go thousands of miles at tremendous cost just to put one’s feet up to talk? And for two days? Make it longer.
First of all, they should bury the Cold War in the deepest bowels of the Mediterranean. Then the two leaders could make some preliminary proposals for arms cuts. Throw fear into those death merchants, the arms manufacturers. Their swan song is long overdue.
In the last three years Gorbachev has been more peace oriented than either former President Reagan or Bush. Now is the time for the tentative Bush to do something positive in the area of peace. If these things are done, the meeting will be well worth it.
DON RADEMACHER, Los Angeles
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