Edward Rowny, Veteran Treaty Negotiator, Dies at 100

Edward Rowny, Outspoken Treaty Negotiator, Dies at 100<br />General asked that Smokey Joe and the<br />After serving in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, General Rowny was named a negotiator in the talks<br />that resulted in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed in 1972 by President Richard M. Nixon and the Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev.<br />Rowny said that The emerging treaty,<br />In 1987, this time as an adviser to a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, on the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (known as Start), he wrote in a newspaper opinion article<br />that negotiations over nuclear missiles should also include the issue of the Soviets’ superiority in conventional forces.<br />As an agreement on European missiles nears, it seems to have lit the fuse on the Rowny time bomb with which Mr. Reagan<br />booby-trapped his own team." General Rowny retired in 1990, the year before the first START treaty was signed.<br />Michael Rowny said that He made his first YouTube video at the age of 94 playing the harmonica,