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...Soviets viewed Rust's romp through more than 400 miles of well- guarded airspace. Soviet and Western military experts were still digesting the news of the abrupt departure of Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov, the first official of that rank to be ousted since Nikita Khrushchev's celebrated firing of Georgi Zhukov for meddling in party affairs in 1957. Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov was also dismissed. Further casualties were expected in the course of a top-level investigation ordered by the ruling Politburo into why Rust's aircraft had not been forced out of the skies before it buzzed...
...Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Union's U.S.A. and Canada Institute, interviewed from Moscow on "Meet the Press," said arms control "looks more possible, but I'm tremendously cautious...
...spent a total of 13 hours with Gorbachev in meetings that British officials described as respectful and constructive, though often fiercely argumentative. Her defense of nuclear deterrence was so impassioned that Soviet officials seemed at a loss to describe the chasm that separated the two leaders. Said Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies: "On nuclear issues, President Reagan is more forward-looking than Thatcher. At least Reagan understands that he, humanity and America can't live forever with nuclear weapons...
...however, a game with most uncertain prospects. Mikhail Gorbachev and his chief Americanologist, Georgi Arbatov, have been talking of Soviet eagerness to negotiate arms reduction. Arbatov, on a December visit to Washington, went so far as to hint about a compromise on SDI that would permit a vigorous research-and-develo pment program, prohibiting only advanced, large-scale testing that could lead to quick deployment. However, such remarks may be intended partly to intensify pressure on Reagan to make a deal -- and intensify criticism if he does not. Gorbachev's refusal to repeat the televised New Year greetings that...
...arms-control overtures like his ban on nuclear testing, the feeling has grown in the Soviet Union that this time he must return from a summit with something more substantial than an autographed picture of Reagan. "We have been saying deeds matter more than words," said Central Committee Member Georgi Kornienko at the recent U.S.-Soviet conference in Riga, Latvia. "We want to see a summit that accomplishes deeds and doesn't just produce more words...