Reagan Says He’d Consider Summit After Fall Election
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WASHINGTON — President Reagan, in an interview released by the White House today, said he still favors a summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in June or July but would be willing to consider one after the November election.
“We’d listen to that, and look at it,” Reagan said in the interview with the Baltimore Sun. But he also said that “by that time we’re getting pretty late in the year” and “I hadn’t thought about anything after that time.”
Asked whether his preference is still June or July, Reagan said it is.
The President also discounted a Soviet warning that the summit could be threatened by a recent U.S. order to reduce Soviet staff at the United Nations.
He said that he set no deadline for a Soviet reply to his summit invitation and that he believes an agreement will be worked out.
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