SIMI VALLEY : Conference at Library to Review End of Cold War

Marking the 10th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s historic summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library plans a massive conference Nov. 13 on what library officials called “the day that began the end of the Cold War.”

Former Secretary of State George Shultz will give a keynote speech at the daylong conference, which will feature panel discussions among former U.S. and Soviet policy-makers, diplomats and scholars.

Veteran political correspondents Chris Wallace of NBC News and Bill Plante of CBS News will moderate the panel discussions, exploring events that led to the Geneva Summit and the tumultuous changes in U.S.-Soviet relations that followed.

After the address by Shultz, who is now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Wallace’s panel will discuss the “Road to Geneva.” Taking part will be Anatoli Chemayev, a former aide to Gorbachev, and Fred Charles Ikle, a former U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy.

Also joining in will be Max M. Kampelman, former ambassador and head of the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on nuclear and space arms, and Richard N. Perle, former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy.

In the afternoon, Plante will moderate a discussion by former White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan, Pavel Palazchenko, who was Gorbachev’s adviser and translator, and Sergei Tarasenko, former principal policy assistant to then-Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

Also taking part in that panel will be Jack F. Matlock Jr., former ambassador to the Soviet Union, and James H. Bilington, librarian of Congress who was director and Russian affairs specialist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Official Reagan biographer Edmund Morris will give a closing speech.

Tickets cost $35 and are available only by reservation and advance payment. For information, call 522-2977.