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...agents who fly in from Moscow to inspect the documents at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw cannot contain their excitement: the papers provide details of a U.S. research-and-development project to protect the Minuteman arsenal from destruction by a Soviet nuclear strike. KGB Chief (now Soviet President) Yuri Andropov personally signs a letter of commendation to the Polish officials orchestrating the deal, who summon the American engineer back to Poland in September for his payment. The spy gets a thousand $100 bills stuffed into an envelope. Later payments bring the sum to more than...
...negotiations and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva if the missiles are deployed. 'We do not want to take part in negotiations leading to a situation in which powerful new missiles and warheads will be stationed in Europe," declared Zamyatin, a close adviser to Soviet President Yuri Andropov and a member of the policy-setting Central Committee. Zamyatin was asked if he meant that deployment would end the Geneva negotiations. He replied, "You have understood me correctly...
...when he saw the first cut of the film and says the present version "is the most important thing I have ever done." Director Meyer calls the movie "the most valuable thing I've ever done with my life." Mayor David Longhurst has invited Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov to Lawrence for a summit. Another Lawrence citizen, Bob Swan, member of the antinuke Let Lawrence Live organization, says he is trying to link up his home town by television or telephone to Leningrad, so that Soviets and Americans can hash things out person to person. After the broadcast...
NONFICTION: Andropov, Zhores...
...never apologize," says Sergius in Arms and the Man. Neither, apparently, does Mr. Andropov. Why? It will not do to pin it on "Communist morality," or the lack of it. The People's Republic of China shot down a British airliner on July 23, 1954, killing ten of the 18 passengers. The Chinese took responsibility for the incident, explained that they had mistaken the airliner for a Taiwanese military aircraft, and offered compensation. Why couldn't the Soviets do the same...