James A. Abrahamson administration to announce the program would cease. Abrahamson accompanied President Reagan to Reykjavik, Iceland, for the Reykjavik Summit on October 11, 1986, to meet the Soviet leader, Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev. The subject of the Strategic Defense Initiative's technological advances and their effects on the strategic nuclear balance between the United States and the Soviet Union during the last years of the Cold War was raised by the Soviets at the meeting. During the post-summit press conference, Gorbachev said Reagan's insistence on deploying SDI had "frustrated and scuttled" the opportunity for an agreement. Abrahamson was promoted to lieutenant general on
Scene of the Crime (1986 film) out a series of violent passions, with the boy caught in the middle. Téchiné's tight, emotionally suppressed, direction worked within the codes of melodrama. The film's two concerns are repression and freedom. The film was nominated for Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. In 1987 the film received a César Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Darrieux). Scene of the Crime (1986 film) Scene of the Crime () is a 1986 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak and Danielle Darrieux. The film tells the story of a crumbling family in rural