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...Soviets countered, according to intelligence sources, that the U.S. broke the rules by setting its trap for a nondiplomat like Zakharov, and then by putting him in jail. Normally agents who are arrested are expelled or released to the Soviet Ambassador. "The Soviets don't like to have their spies put in jail," says former CIA Director Stansfield Turner. "Things won't get quiet until...
...which, according to a spokesman, he "gently but firmly" asserted Daniloff's innocence and demanded his release. Word was passed to the Soviets that they should resubmit their request to the judge in the Zakharov case to have the accused spy transferred to the custody of the Soviet Ambassador...
Diplomatic moves were afoot as well. The White House confirmed that Vernon Walters, shifting from his role as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., will travel to Europe this week to explore the effectiveness of present economic sanctions against Libya and possibly urge that stronger measures be taken. Syria's President Hafez Assad turned up in Benghazi to meet publicly with Gaddafi and declared that Syria "stands with all its potential by the side of Libya . . . to face the threats of America...
...Invulnerability is a dangerous illusion. SDI may accelerate the arms race," said Maj Britt Theorin, Swedish ambassador to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. "Technological advantage in any weapons system can only be temporary and can never lead to permanent security," she said in a panel moderated by Radcliffe president Matina S. Horner and Naomi Chazan...
...letter was sent September 3 to Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet minister of foreign affairs, and September 4 to Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute of USA and Canada, the USSR Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Yuri V. Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States...