01/01/1985
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"I have asked three highly capable Americans to be the head negotiators of each of three groups making up the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on nuclear and space arms."
"Yes. They've never done anything else."
"No, and how that story has been concocted or what it's based on, I don't know."
"We are prepared to discuss the problems which divide us, and to work for practical, fair solutions on the basis of mutual compromise."