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...Defense Richard Perle: "It is a kind of public relations argument to justify the retention of a rather large number of SS-20s in the Soviet Union." In the view of many NATO governments, Moscow would have an overwhelming advantage in Europe if the U.S. accepted Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's proposal that the number of Soviet SS-20s be reduced to 162 to offset the British and French missiles, leaving the U.S. with no sophisticated intermediate-range missile on the Continent. For nations such as West Germany and Italy, which have no independent nuclear forces, this would raise...
...international behavior of the Soviet Union [under Andropov] will not necessarily differ much from the behavior under Brezhnev, except that Brezhnev as a person was deeply afraid of the possibility of war. How does Andropov compare with him? My feeling is, if I may oversimplify, that Brezhnev was a Russian soul as we think of a Russian soul from having read Dostoyevsky or Pushkin, whereas Andropov is a modern computer filled with Russian software...
...banning space-based weapons is permeated with grave concern about the peaceful future of space," read the letter from Moscow. "I fully share this concern. To prevent the militarization of space is one of the most urgent tasks facing mankind." The author of the message was Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, who seems to be making a habit of addressing American citizens directly. He was replying to an appeal that had been sent to him and to President Reagan by a group of distinguished U.S. scientists and arms experts who are campaigning for a ban on the development of weapons...
...will have to begin right away, starting not just from Square 1, but from farther back than that. Relations with Moscow are poisonous; the Soviets have no desire to help Reagan get re-elected by allowing him to stage a summit with Yuri Andropov. Besides, even with an emergency infusion of high-level political will from both sides, the task of the negotiators in Geneva in reaching even limited compromises would be daunting...
...reinforce this impression, for our man clearly knew how to pick--and stick with--the right people. In the early 1960s, for example, Arbatov was a confident of the late Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev. And all the way buck in 1964, he became an advisor to Yuni V. Andropov, then one of several secretaries of the Communist party's Central Committee. Today Andropov is Secretary General of the Central Committee and Arbator director of the prestigious Institute for United States and Canadian Studies...