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Gorbachev, who has made clear his understanding that the competition for influence in Europe will depend less on military than economic clout, has staked his claim under the banner of a "common home from the Urals to the Atlantic" shared by the Soviets and West Europeans. By establishing trade, opening markets and seeking financial credits (as well as unilaterally cutting troops), Gorbachev hopes to entice Western Europe into sharing his vision of home...
While this promise cites no numbers, it could turn out to be a critical component of Gorbachev's claim to be moving toward a defensive deployment. Such mundane items as assault bridges mounted on armored vehicles get little public attention, but the Warsaw nations, by NATO estimates, have a 2,550-to- 454 edge in these river-spanning devices. Conceded a NATO official: "This certainly helps stability by reducing the chances of a bolt-from-the-blue attack...
...against the clubs has precluded a more critical analysis of the issue that would help to elucidate its problems toward a more sensible approach to dealing with it. Mere slandering and name-calling does not lend credibility to the moral high ground on which critics of the final clubs claim to be standing. Quite the opposite, their moralistic approach has, if anything, undermined their attempts to steer the final clubs toward reform and has fallen short of generating intelligent discussion that would, at the very least, foster a better understanding of the final clubs and the role they play...
...loss meant one thing for the Gophers: They would no longer be the number-two ranked team in the nation. In stepped Harvard to claim that honor in this week's USA Coaches' Poll...
...important question for Gorbachev is whether he can retain control in the Soviet Union. While the Soviets claim Gorbachev rushed home early from the United States last week because of the destructive Armenian earthquake which claimed more than 60,000 lives, experts on the Soviet Union openly question whether he did so because of negative reactions from the Soviet military. Soviet armed forces chief of staff Sergie Akhormeyev, who opposed Gorbachev in this latest unilateral move, resigned the same day Gorbachev gave his U.N. speech...