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...simultaneous Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, set to resume this week in Geneva, also seemed likely to remain stalemated. Their prospects not only were shaken by the Andropov blast, but Reagan is having almost as much difficulty negotiating with Congress, his State Department and the Pentagon as with the Soviets. Some key legislators still threaten to vote against final funding for MX-missile deployment in the U.S. unless the Administration takes a more flexible position in START, as it has now done...
...overall mood in Washington and Western Europe was one of deep worry. As Stefano Silvestri of Rome's Institute for Foreign Affairs put it, the tone of Andropov's reply seemed "to suggest the bad temper of Khrushchev at the beginning of the '60s, and that of course brings memories of the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis and all the rest." Against that gloomy backdrop, it was tempting last week to conclude that as relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated, the Ad- ministration was playing its China card, cozying up to the world's most...
...another twist in the continuing diplomatic but psychological warfare that Peking is waging against Moscow. Declared one White House official last week: "There are no stars in anyone's eyes on either side this time. But both sides see the importance of building the relationship." Indeed, after Andropov's outburst, any easing of friction between the U.S. and China acquired two-edged significance. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington, Bruce van Voorst/United Nations, with other bureaus
NONFICTION: Andropov, Zhores A. Medvedev -The Book of America, Neal B. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom Eisenhower, Stephen E. Ambrose Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton
...could not dispute the basic facts of the case. And they quickly became aware that they were suffering even more political damage from their lack of remorse than from shooting down the plane in the first place. As the cover of The Economist somewhat plaintively pointed out to Yuri Andropov, "You had nothing to lose by saying sorry." Yet he would...