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...action, Richard Nixon's sudden decision to visit Peking continued to worry the Russians. One sign of nervousness: four major articles on China appeared in the Soviet press last week alone. The most important one, titled "Questions Calling for a Practical Answer," was written by Georgy Arbatov, director of Moscow's U.S.A. Research Institute and widely regarded as the Kremlin's foremost Americanologist. It described the Nixon trip as "a matter of grave consequence for the Soviet people, for world socialism, for the entire international situation, for world peace...
Burden of Accommodation. Demonstrating considerable sophistication about the U.S., Arbatov noted that not "all Americans who favor an improvement in U.S.-China relations are motivated by hostility toward other socialist countries," meaning Soviet Russia. But some of the U.S. champions of a rapprochement with Peking are also "rabid haters of the Soviet Union," added Arbatov, and that "cannot but make one think." He noted the widespread antiwar feeling in the U.S. and the desire for international relaxation, but added that Moscow ought to take "the statements about Washington's peace-loving intentions and good will seriously" only if they...
...theory of "convergence," most notably propounded by dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov, argues that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are moving increasingly together, the result of their common thrall to similar technological, military and environmental problems. Perhaps so, said Georgy Arbatov, head of Russia's United States Institute and Moscow's leading America watcher, on a recent visit to California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. But Arbatov disagrees with those who believe that convergence must somehow serve to improve international relations...
...Arbatov confessed: "I don't want to make an absolute law for international relations out of it-especially in view of some neighbors we have," presumably meaning those troublesome Chinese. His theory is a sort of global extension of the fact that most murders occur within families or close circles of acquaintances. It also contains a beguilingly sinister suggestion that mutual understanding, that canon of civilized thought, can be fatal...
Exploration. In the past, mutual fear has kept the arms race going. Administration advocates of arms control believe that the U.S.S.R. is simply trying to achieve parity with the U.S. in order not to negotiate from weakness. There is Soviet testimony to support that view. Georgy Arbatov, one of the Soviet Union's leading America watchers, believes that there is no longer a significant strategic gap between the two countries-and that this will make it easier for them to act on their concern for limiting the arms race...