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...stern congressional warning, a new flutter from Andropov...
Spiegel of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace...
...Andropov has already tried a variety of tactics to halt the economic stagnation that had set in during the last years of Leonid Brezhnev's rule. The results have been mixed. Soviet national income has grown at the rate of 4% this year, compared with 2.9% in 1982. Andropov can also take heart from what is expected to be the best grain harvest since 1978. According to U.S. analysts, the yield may reach 200 to 210 million metric tons, well above the average of 177 million metric tons over the past four years. Still, the Soviet Union will...
...major sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. The State Department is musing about how to engage the Soviets in mutual restraint and perhaps even joint diplomatic initiatives in the Third World, particularly southern Africa. Both leaderships recognize that unremitting hostility is wasteful and dangerous. Yuri Andropov's Politburo is trying to figure out what to do about social and economic stagnation; it is preoccupied with the pacification of Poland and its "peace offensive" in Western Europe. Those campaigns are harder to wage if international tensions are on the rise. Reagan has a budget deficit to trim...
Neither would Soviet prestige. Some European officials and some members of the Reagan Administration have convinced themselves that Andropov is aching for a summit as a kind of status symbol, to prove his legitimacy as Leonid Brezhnev's successor and to underscore the Soviet Union's standing as an equal of the U.S. Yet it is just as plausible that Andropov is under pressure to prove to his hard-line comrades that he is tough enough to hold out for a summit on his own terms. Nor is it realistic to think that a productive summit...