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That ought not to be true. As one of its original negotiators, Sidney Graybeal, notes, "The treaty was meant to be a living document, therefore subject to updating as the world changes." And the world has indeed evolved in ways the Soviets surely recognize. While Saddam and Bush are at the top of each other's hate list today, Iraq is geographically much closer to the U.S.S.R. than to the U.S. So is China, which has a sizable arsenal, much of it aimed at Soviet targets. So is Pakistan, with its own nuclear ambitions...
...Kerry released part of a 1986 CIA memo warning the Treasury and State departments that B.C.C.I. had secretly owned First American since 1982. Yet the Reagan Administration apparently did nothing in response to the document. On Friday, CIA Deputy Director Richard J. Kerr confirmed that the agency had used B.C.C.I. to move money around the world; other sources confirmed that the Defense Intelligence Agency, which monitors other nations' armed forces, had transferred funds through the bank. But the CIA's Kerr said his agency had "aggressively" targeted the bank for intelligence gathering because, "from the early 1980s, it was obvious...
What particularly incensed Sergeyev and other supporters of traditional Marxist-Leninist doctrine was a draft charter that Gorbachev presented to the plenum of the party leadership -- the first complete restatement of basic principles in 30 years. In Sergeyev's view, Gorbachev's document was too "social democratic," a derogatory term among hard-liners. What he meant was that Gorbachev wanted to abandon basic communist principles. Instead, he has advocated a democratic, parliamentary-style party and a mixed economy. "If the Gorbachev line should triumph," warned Sergeyev, "there will no longer be a Communist Party -- not even in name...
...great rush to see their lives replayed on TV, who can be bothered to edit the gems they have recorded? Result: the world's greatest collection of truly awful videotapes -- a vast library of raw footage even more droning and banal than the reality it purports to document...
...week before the summit, Gorbachev sent a 23-page letter to the leaders of the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada, telling them the time had come for the "Soviet Union's organic incorporation into the world economy." He buttressed his letter with a 31-page document outlining areas of the Soviet economy in which the West was invited to invest. Even the German government, more eager than any of the others to offer Moscow solid support, agreed with Washington, Tokyo and London that Gorbachev's $ promises were too general. They focused on creating a "mixed economy" rather...