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...delegation to Geneva's Committee on Disarmament, for instance, is permitted merely to study the technical and legal terrain. At the United Nations the U.S. has ignored the Soviets' draft treaty to outlaw all space weapons. There has been no official U.S. response to Yuri Andropov's August declaration of a unilateral moratorium on Soviet ASAT launches...
...Andropov's gesture was at least partly a well-timed propaganda move meant to forestall the imminent test of the first U.S. ASAT missile. The Soviets are also playing on West European skittishness; NATO allies worry about space weapons "decoupling" U.S. and European strategic interests. "There is concern in Europe that this [technology] portends a 'fortress America,' " says Jonathan Alford of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "It tends toward the protection of the U.S. and the exposure of Western Europe." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger flew to Paris last week to reassure the French...
...Western Europe, Moscow has wasted no time in showing that it will not concede diplomatic defeat. On the heels of the Soviet walkout from the Geneva talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF), Soviet envoys fanned out in West European capitals with letters bearing the signature of Leader Yuri Andropov. The messages were the first salvos in a renewed campaign to persuade the West Europeans to change their minds. Their central theme: "The Soviet Union does not wish to regard the existing situation as irreversible...
Reagan did not agree. He was by then very conscious that he was engaged in an almost personal contest with Andropov. He did not want to let the Soviet leader, as he said at one point, "outflexible" him. On Aug. 26, Andropov played another card. Not only would the Soviet Union reduce its European SS-20s from 243 to 162 but it would "liquidate" the remaining 81 rather than redeploy them in Asia...
Sokolov was arrested last year for accepting bribes. Some of the caterer's influential acquaintances appealed in his behalf, to no avail. After Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, 1982, his successor Yuri Andropov launched a campaign against high-level corruption. Last week TASS announced that Sokolov had been sentenced to death and that four of his assistants were given long prison terms. Stiff penalties for corruption are not infrequent in the Soviet Union, but before Andropov's crackdown they were rarely imposed on someone as well connected as Sokolov...