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There is nothing muted or polite about Moscow's alarm and impatience with the new Administration. In a series of interviews, Soviet observers have lashed out sharply not just against the Administration as a whole but against individuals in key positions. Says Georgi Arbatov, the U.S.S.R.'s chief America watcher and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee: "The people who have come to power are more ideological than almost any in the past. Many of them hate us blindly. I'm not necessarily talking about the top level, but at the next level there...
...share a 4,100-mile border. To the Kremlin, Haig's trip was one more proof that virtually every policy move by the new Administration is dictated by its anti-Soviet stance. The announcement of the arms sale, no matter how small, added to tensions. In Moscow, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott that the Haig trip was "all part of a campaign of blackmail against the Soviet Union and is just further proof that the talk coming out of Washington about resuming relations...
...said the Institute on the U.S.A. and Canada, headed by top Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov, invited him to Moscow in March to participate in informal discussions at the official Soviet think-tank. Leebaert also met with Soviet Foreign Ministry officials, he said...
Washington's unsettling reports were met with some skepticism abroad. Most experts in Western Europe felt that Moscow's latest military movements were mainly meant to intimidate the wayward Poles. One Soviet official visiting the U.S., Georgi Arbatov, director of Moscow's Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, insisted last week that "nobody in the Soviet Union wants a dramatic development [an invasion] in Poland, because it would have tragic consequences for our own relations with that country." Yet he conveyed the clear implication that an invasion may be unavoidable: "After...
...that he did not make, or at least concur in, the decision to invade. Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, who has maintained an affable relationship with Washington policymakers for some 20 years, was in Moscow when the decision was reached, but it is not known what he advised. Americanologist Georgi Arbatov suffered a heart attack in November and probably did not contribute to the invasion plan or an assessment of an American reaction...