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Moscow faces losses as well. Professor Alexander Arbatov of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences estimates that the Soviet Union might be forfeiting a potential gain of as much as $1 billion by cutting off sales of arms and agricultural products to Iraq. Several East European countries with crumbling economies will be burdened by the chunks of uncollectible Iraqi debt they hold. Worst off are Bulgaria, which carries $1.2 billion, and Romania, which is owed $1.7 billion...
...GEORGI ARBATOV...
...debates. The plenum discussed plans to invest the position with enhanced powers, creating a presidency more along the lines of the American or French model. The Soviet President's new portfolio is likely to include national security, foreign policy, the KGB and police and oversight of economic reforms. Georgi Arbatov, the country's best-known Americanologist, believes the new President should have veto powers, noting that "we should carefully study the American experience on this." For the present, the President would continue to be elected by the Congress of People's Deputies -- although the notion of direct popular election could...
...there would probably have been considerably more saber rattling, perhaps even nuclear warnings. In the Gorbachev era, both sides go out of their way to avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, who plays a national security adviser to the Kremlin, orders the KGB to work directly with...
Velikhov and Arbatov are, in fact, both advisers to Gorbachev. They came to the TV set straight from a stormy government meeting and brought with them a sense of reality that put The Blue X Conspiracy in perspective. While waiting ^ for a reply to a hot-line message to Washington, the Soviet team agreed that, however complex and serious, the problems in the simulation paled compared with those Gorbachev faces in the real world...