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Judging from the way the Soviet press covered the news, it seemed more likely that Ogarkov had been abruptly sacked and left in limbo. The official army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ran a large photograph and biography of the new Chief of Staff, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, 61, on the front page and relegated Ogarkov to a few lines of tiny print. Pravda buried the announcement of his departure on the back page...
...Kremlin passed over more senior-ranking officers and chose Akhromeyev, Ogarkov's longtime deputy and a former tank commander, as his replacement. Like Ogarkov, the new Chief of Staff represents a younger generation of better-educated officers who, in the words of a Washington analyst, are "not frightened by computers and technology." U.S. Congressmen who met Akhromeyev in Moscow last year describe him as "a tough, hard-nosed, thoroughly professional officer, who was clearly the man in charge...
Unfortunately, an agreement in the INF talks before December, when NATO is scheduled to deploy American Pershing II and cruise missiles, seems very unlikely. Last week Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko and Deputy Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev had a press conference in Moscow to put down reports emanating from West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the U.S.S.R. might become more flexible in its INF stance. "Such conclusions are wishful thinking," said Kornienko. Nor does there seem much hope of progress on limiting the number of intercontinental missiles at the START negotiations...
...give-and-take between the superpowers produced at least one official diplomatic stir. Democratic Representative Thomas Downey of New York claimed to find evidence of a possible change in the Soviet stance at the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe. According to Downey, Soviet Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, first deputy chief of the General Staff, told consider group of Congressmen that Moscow might be willing to consider a proposal similar to one discussed a year ago between U.S. Arms Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. That formula, worked out by the two negotiators at Geneva...