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Your article "Making Hostility a Media Event" [Aug. 29] insinuates that Der Spiegel has depicted the U.S. "as a nation of knee-jerk militarists and simultaneously has managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given...
...found Medvedev's observations on Andropov's political career quite interesting. But he is not and never has been a member of our editorial staff...
Reagan and Andropov joust over arms control...
...shadow of Flight 007 still darkens relations between the two superpowers, but last week both Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov shifted their attention to a matter of far more compelling urgency and long-run significance: the menace of nuclear weapons in Europe...
...Andropov, on the other hand, warned legislators in Bonn against the planned NATO missile deployment in West Germany, arguing, "You do not want the threat of war to emanate from the territory of your country, a war that would be a hell for the whole of mankind." Communist Party officials from Soviet-bloc nations were summoned to Moscow for a conference on ways to prevent the Pershing II and cruise deployment...