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...official communique contained only a vague acknowledgment of Greek claims in the Aegean Sea. Since Greece and Turkey are strategically placed close to the Black Sea, Moscow wants to maintain good relations with both countries. The Soviets pleased Papandreou by agreeing to build a gas pipeline through Bulgaria to Greece, starting in 1986, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. Moscow also promised to award Greek shipyards orders for four vessels worth $65 million and contracts for $20 million in repairs. The Soviets also agreed to build a subway to replace Athens' 80-year-old system...
That same year, 1971, I was also sent to sound out Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania on a treaty to liquidate chemical and biological weapons. The Soviet Union has consistently depicted itself as a leader in the effort to destroy these ghastly weapons. In fact, it has always continued to expand its sophisticated chemical and biological weapons production programs...
...Warsaw Pact meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, last week was to have been the first gathering of the seven-member organization's top leaders since January 1983. It was considered particularly significant since it followed the resumption of U.S.-Soviet arms talks. Then came the brief announcement from TASS: the conference had been postponed. To many Kremlin watchers, there was only one possible explanation, as voiced by a senior British diplomat: "A deterioration in Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko's health...
Nonetheless, the Pentagon kept up its threatening expressions of concern. Even without the MiG-21s, U.S. officials said, the arrival of the Bakuriani marked the first time the Soviets had sent weapons to Nicaragua under their own flag, rather than through such surrogates as Cuba or Bulgaria. U.S. military officials said last week that four more Soviet and East-bloc freighters were on their way to Nicaragua, without saying when the ships would arrive, or where. Said Pentagon Spokesman Burch: "Nicaragua has now armed itself to a greater degree or in quantities far greater than any of its neighbors...
...prickly, a steady stream of high-ranking officials from Peking has fanned out across Eastern Europe during the past four months. President Li Xiannian traveled to Rumania and Yugoslavia. China's Minister of Foreign Trade, Chen Muhua, made well-publicized visits to Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria. The good feelings have been reciprocated. Last August, Hungarian Deputy Premier József Marjai became the highest-ranking East European official to visit China in nearly two decades. Peking has also played host to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland...