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...initially, referred in his opening remarks to a statement he had written out in longhand. From the days of Vladimir Lenin to the current leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, he said, Moscow's policy has been to promote world revolution. In U.S. eyes the Soviet Union is still an expansionist state, and Americans naturally are worried. The President quickly followed, however, with his explicit recognition of Soviet status as a superpower and disavowal of any American desire to change its system. The U.S., said Reagan, does not seek military superiority over the Kremlin; it wants to deal with the Soviet...
...considerably more important to the Kremlin. Although Greece is a NATO member, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has opposed the alliance's deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Greece recently provoked Washington's ire by describing the U.S. as "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." Papandreou has also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. By nominating Andropov, Moscow may be signaling its solicitude both for Greece and for one of its own most illustrious scions...
...Washington tempers flared in May after Papandreou, a former Econom- ics Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, called the U.S. "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." He also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. The remarks came on top of Greece's continuing opposition to the deployment of new NATO missiles in Western Europe, as well as Papandreou's refusal to condemn Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and Poland...
...condoning Reagan's "militarist course.") Reagan did his best to draw the Chinese closer, while acknowledging that he did not expect the "friendship" between the two countries to blossom into an "alliance." Chinese Communists are more to his liking than Soviet ones, Reagan said, because they are not "expansionist" and are willing to experiment with capitalism...
...moment, no group represents everyone who supports a democratic, non-militarist and non-expansionist University. But unity can be achieved. The strike steering committee set up by students who initially supported SDS's six demands was designed to be expanded, and the six demands can be added to and clarified. Students who find themselves for the most part in agreement with this group's demands should, as the strike proceeds, attend and participate in the meetings of the radical strike group. These are not SDS meetings, but simply meetings of people who support the radical demands...