On Monday, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted a Russian diplomatic official as saying: "It is quite possible to prepare quickly a new agreement on strategic offensive weapons and strategic stability," adding, "At the last round of talks, the U.S. side repeatedly affirmed its desire to reach a legally binding agreement".
Reagan's lack of preparedness, if true, explains why some of his aides were pushing for an agreement to abolish offensive ballistic missiles while others were pushing for abolishing all nuclear weapons, and why Reagan and Gorbachev went back and forth between negotiating to abolish nuclear weapons and negotiating to just abolish all offensive ballistic missiles.
No wonder the effort turned into a debacle when bloodthirsty rebels, sensing weakness and confusion, ignored a peace agreement, went on the offensive and took hostage 500 peacekeepers.
The Buccaneers have reached a tentative agreement with the free-agent offensive tackle Randall McDaniel on a three-year contract worth $6.5 million, Jack Mills, McDaniel's agent, said.
As part of a package, Russia has already secured agreement for the reduction in offensive nuclear weapons it desperately needs for financial reasons.
He is about to pursue a diplomatic offensive to secure agreement with eastern European countries for his plan to restrict benefit payments to EU migrants.
But the weeklong visit by Mr. Chernov, deputy secretary of Russia's security council, reflected a sense that public opinion affects American policy, and that the Genoa agreement to discuss defensive and offensive missiles had been seen in the United States -- as it had been by some of Mr. Putin's critics in Moscow -- as a major Russian concession.
Mr Poroshenko - who had accused Russia of making "unacceptable" demands - said rebels had launched an offensive after the agreement was announced.
He reached oral agreements with Charlie Weis, the Jets' offensive coordinator, and Eric Mangini, a defensive assistant with the Jets.
After nightlong negotiations that ended before dawn on Friday yielded no agreement, Senator Reid went on the offensive.
