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Without giving China any credit, the Soviet Union in 1982 in a pronouncement by Leonid Brezhney formally adopted a "no first use" policy. As recently as March 1984 Moscow has reiterated this pledge and hinted broadly that a similar declaration by the US would bring it back to the negotiating table. To date, both the US and us fellow Western nuclear powers, the UK and France have declined to endorse the concept even in principle or as a declared objective...
Harvard Russian and Chinese studies experts disagreed yesterday on the significance of and the motives for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhney's overtures Wednesday to Chinese leaders...
...speech Wednesday, Brezhney called for a restoration of ties between the two countries, adding that the Soviets would be willing to resume negotiations over border disputes...
Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of History and Political Science, said the overture was one more step in an attempt by Russia to patch things up with China" that has been going on for a long time. He discounted the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan as a factor in Brezhney's action...
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