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Most U.S. analysts played down the significance of reports that the Syrians and, by implication, the Soviets were preparing for war. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "We think it's bluster and bluff to scare the hell out of Lebanon not to ratify the agreement with Israel, no more than that." A Western diplomat in Moscow noted that there was no sign that the Soviets had evacuated any dependents from Damascus. That, he added, was "the important thing...
...offering the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad more and better materiel than he had before. Moscow, moreover, has added a new dimension to its involvement in Syria by installing SA-5 missile bases that have to be manned by Soviet troops and technicians. Says a West European diplomat in Damascus: "For the first time, the Soviets have bases in Syria. This is a categorical and qualitative change in the nature of Soviet involvement...
...forgery hastened war and the unification of Germany. In 1870, King William I of Prussia met with the French ambassador at Ems and sent a report of what took place to Premier Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck edited this account to make the King appear insulting toward the diplomat and then released his version to the press. As he had hoped, the outraged French attacked Germany, enabling Bismarck to embark on the Franco-Prussian War, which he decisively won. Governmental forgery goes on, in many guises and places. The practices of the Soviet Union's KGB have made the term...
...make public statements on INF policy in Moscow, the preferred guests have been West Germans, not Americans. When Soviet officials have given INF interviews to the Western press, they have chosen to speak to West German publications. To head the Soviet INF delegation in Geneva the Soviets chose a diplomat whose areas of expertise was neither nuclear weapons nor American foreign policy but West German politics...
President Reagan did not respond to the scientists' petition, and Administration officials had no comment on Andropov's letter. But a senior Western diplomat in Moscow said that the Soviet tactic of appealing to Western public opinion through individual letters undermined serious arms negotiations. "Propaganda is being turned out more quickly and more cleverly under Andropov," he said. "They are using this technique not to talk seriously about vital questions, but to build a worldwide campaign against the Reagan Administration...