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...these problems seem to be resolved. Daniloff is back home in America and Reagan will soon leave for Iceland to lay the groundwork for an arms accord with Gorbachev...
...Gorbachev holds all the cards. Reagan stands to gain much politically if he can return from the Iceland meeting with the promise of a peace agreement in our time. Gorbachev then stands to gain much from Reagan if he threatens to call the meeting a failure...
...speech, Gerasimov expressed optimismabout the pre-summit meeting which GeneralSecretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and PresidentReagan agreed to hold in Iceland 10 days from...
...jargon. Clancy convincingly shows the importance of electronic intelligence--gathered by satellites, ships, planes and submarines--to modern warfare. Yet it is an old-fashioned human component that proves to be a critical factor. One of the multitude of subplots involves four Americans wandering the barren terrain of occupied Iceland, reporting Soviet movements on a primitive two-way radio. At first, allied analysts are skeptical about the information, but it turns out to be crucial. Here Clancy goes off automatic pilot; there are even a few romantic interludes, as if to remind the reader that the most brilliantly designed...
...Homo sapiens fans, the Iceland episodes will be far too short--they are a mere fraction of the 43-chapter epic. The book has a variety of heroes and villains in its complex weave of plot strands, but the diffuse locales and the lack of an appealing main character make for a somewhat choppy narrative. Intrigues within the Politburo are interspersed with tense moments in the control rooms of submarines deep in the Atlantic, arguments among analysts in Scotland, daring assaults by fighter pilots on satellites, feats by covert commandos and battlefield maneuvers by intrepid tank commanders. The tightly focused...