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not. as in poker, because participants run out of money or because they are exhausted.

In keeping with this analysis, it is understandable that the Russians could agree to SALT II, which provided for an end to the game when certain conditions were met in “checkmate” in the year 2000. The concept of checkmate is foreign to the thought of poker players or to those who think as poker players. Poker does not allow for ties. George Kennan in an analysis of the Helsinki accords points out that it was consistent and in character for the Russians to agree to the territorial provisions of those accords, which were specific and defined, but folly to believe that they understood or accepted the human rights provisions of those accords as we did.

Russians and Americans should, before undertaking further dis-armament discussions, agree on common imagery. Possibly one meeting could be held in which all figures of speech had to be drawn from poker and another from chess. There would still be room for nego

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