According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, they discussed disarmament proposals.

Sinn Fein, the organization's political wing, must press the I.R.A. to resubmit the disarmament proposal it briefly offered earlier this month.

When Russia successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, Eisenhower, against the advice of Dulles, decided to initiate a disarmament proposal to the Russians.

By making the disarmament proposal as part of a commencement speech here in 1982, "he gave them a presidential legacy," Ms. Reagan said.

Mikhail Gorbachev has launched another disarmament proposal.

Meanwhile, the Soviet leader may be preparing to go over President Reagan's head with a direct plea to the American people on behalf of some self-serving disarmament proposals.

Pointing to its earlier disarmament proposal, Sinn Fein denied that its actions were explicitly caused by the events in the United States.

In a statement issued in Belfast, the I.R.A. said that conditions no longer existed for the groundbreaking disarmament proposal it put forth last weekend.

Police chiefs, who beseeched Congress for the Brady bill, may again be heard with other reasonable disarmament proposals.

They said that previous disarmament proposals had often evaporated, and that many large American corporations could suffer if military spending was drastically reduced.