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...announcement sent nervous tremors around the world. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev fired off a letter to Reagan, warning vaguely that any move to put U.S. troops in the Middle East would influence Soviet policy toward the area. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat publicly scoffed at the U.S. offer, saying, "The weapons and the fleet that helped kill our women and children cannot protect us," although in private his aides hinted that they would welcome U.S. assistance in arranging a safe and orderly withdrawal of Palestinian forces from Lebanon to other Arab lands. In Washington, some members of Congress voiced doubts about...
According to a Soviet official who is advising the Kremlin on arms-control policy, Brezhnev has deliberately avoided referring to SALT by name. He recognizes that Reagan's repeated denunciation of SALT as "fatally flawed" during the 1980 presidential campaign and in the first year of his Administration makes it impossible for the President to reverse himself and ratify the treaty. But the Soviets are counting on the impact of their own negotiating tactics, combined with growing pressure from the West European allies and the nuclear-freeze movement in the U.S., to improve prospects for a new pact. Moscow...
...long as the Soviets do the same. He had been persuaded, primarily by his military advisers, that in the absence of the SALT limits, Moscow could proliferate its warheads much more quickly than the U.S. could take either offensive or defensive countermeasures. In an interview with TIME last month, Brezhnev's chief spokesman Leonid Zamyatin for the first time made a similar pledge of restraint on behalf of the Kremlin leadership...
...trouble is the Soviets insist that equality now exists. They agreed to SALT II because, in their assessment-which was shared by many Americans-the treaty acknowledged that equality. Leonid Brezhnev keeps urging his own version of a freeze, partly because he believes the present level of nuclear arsenals assures what he calls "equal security...
...James Muller and Tufts University Professor John Pastore-discussed such topics as the effects of a one-megaton bomb on a city, medical care for nuclear victims and the long-term effects of radiation fallout. The Soviets likewise avoided ideological confrontations. Said Yevgeni Chazov, one of President Leonid Brezhnev's physicians: "We have come here openly and honestly to tell the people about our movement, whose main objective is the preservation of life on earth...