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...first-aid box and started running toward him but was forced back into the car by Soviet soldiers. It was another hour before a Soviet medic examined Nicholson; by then he was dead. The next day, an East German ambulance delivered Nicholson's body to a U.S. honor guard at the center of Berlin's Glienicker Brucke, the bridge at the East-West crossing point where captured Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel was exchanged for downed U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers...
Electronic eavesdropping has played a long if not particularly honorable role in postwar East-West relations. The most celebrated case was the discovery of an electronic listening device in a wooden replica of the great seal of the U.S. presented to American Ambassador Averell Harriman by the Soviets in 1945 and displayed by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at the U.N. in 1960. * Some time after the U.S. moved into its Moscow embassy quarters in 1953, security officials found telephone bugs encased in bamboo, making them impervious to the metal detectors. In 1956 it was the Soviets' turn to expose electronic...
...issue of East-West relations, Gorbachev echoed a Kremlin theme of the past year: eagerness for improvement, but on Soviet terms. And those terms show no sign of changing. Gorbachev's Kremlin, like Brezhnev's a decade ago, wants peaceful coexistence and detente, largely so that the leadership can tend to the economy. The U.S.S.R. desires recognition as a superpower, equal in status and privilege with the U.S. It also wants what Soviet spokesmen call "compensation" for various perceived or alleged geopolitical disadvantages and grievances. In practice, the twin claims of equality and compensation mean that the Soviet Union...
...Washington, there was a discernible sense of skepticism about whether a new age was dawning in East-West relations. Many analysts felt that Gorbachev, however young and personable, could ultimately prove to be a supremely talented apparatchik, but one without the breadth of vision to carry out far- reaching internal reforms or a reassessment of the Soviet Union's relations abroad. Calendar age does not necessarily equate with political outlook, nor is new necessarily better. Said one State Department official: "Gorbachev's energy will vitalize his office, so the possibility of progress is greater. But at the same time...
...more successful in putting a human face on the Soviet leadership. His appetite for technical matters became obvious during his tour of an agricultural research center and an auto factory. During nearly 3 1/2 hours of talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev spoke knowledgeably about arms control and East-West issues. Observed a Foreign Office diplomat: "It's nice to find a Soviet politician whose face moves. Even when he scowls, you know where you stand...