marvin kalb thank you so much for joining us today. >> my pleasure might. i think you and i think the national press club. >> we will virtually present you with her national press club coffee mug and hope that we can see you in person in the very near future. so thank you. >> thank you. >> get gives me immense pleasure to introduce today's panel where we will be discussing timothy

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foreign policy issues are georgie ann geier, indicated columnist for universal press syndicate, marvin kalb, chief diplomatic correspondent for nbc news, morton kondracke, executive editor of "the new republic" magazine, and henry trewhitt, diplomatic correspondent for the "baltimore sun." edwin newman, formerly of nbc news and now a syndicated columnist for king features, is our moderator. ed? >> dorothy ridings, thank you. a brief word about our procedure tonight. the first question will go to mr. mondale. he'll have 2 1/2 minutes to reply. then the panel member who put the question will ask a follow-up. the answer to that will be limited to one minute. after that, the same question will be put to president reagan. again there will be a follow-up, and then each man will have one minute for rebuttal. the second question will go to president reagan first. after that, the alternating will continue. at the end there will be four-minute summations with president reagan going last. we have asked the questioners to be brief. let's begin. mrs. geyer, your question to mr. mondale. >> mr. mondale,