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...what are the bases protecting? At a media conference in Manila last week, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov asked, "Suppose the bases go tomorrow -- where's the threat?" The Soviets, he insisted, "will not fill the vacuum." American planners are not so sure of that. Subic is strategically situated across the China Sea from Cam Ranh Bay, the former U.S. naval base in Viet Nam, which now berths about 20 Soviet warships...
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said in Moscow that the Soviet Union wants guarantees that Germany will pose no military threat. Neutrality is one way to achieve that goal -- but not the only way. "Our concern," he added, "is that war never again be unleashed from German soil." Western diplomats believe the Genscher plan will eventually carry the day, with Moscow reluctantly going along...
...Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli Vorontsov told Israel's consular representative, "We oppose any use of citizens leaving the Soviet Union to push Palestinians off land belonging to them." Israel's actions, he said, "are likely to cause serious harm to peace in the Middle East." Another Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennadi Tarasov, flew to Tunis to reiterate those views to the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...only the outlook for perestroika that is in doubt; Gorbachev's own future seems less than guaranteed. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov repeated the traditional response last week when asked whether the President's position was endangered: "There is no alternative to it. There are no alternative leaders. There are no alternative policies." That is not self-evident. In the Soviet Union there are always alternatives, even if they are unpleasant, and there are always ambitious leaders, even if they are unimaginative...
...sabotaging waterlines, the number of troops and police cadets swelled to 29,000. At first, government forces were told to exercise "maximum restraint." But when Azerbaijani militants turned on the soldiers, troops were instructed to fire in self-defense and to protect army weapons caches. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said the conflict was "almost civil...