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...superpowers are in the midst of a second detente, more profound than the first because it is accompanied this time by a serious Soviet attempt at internal reform. Detente II has yielded an arms reduction agreement (the INF treaty) of marginal strategic importance but of such profound psychological impact that the peace movement, which only five years ago threatened to overthrow Western nuclear policy, has been eclipsed...
...House ceremony not long ago, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze handed President Reagan a Russian box. Inside was a glittering gold medal, the first struck in the Soviet Union commemorating the new arms agreement. "The General Secretary wanted you to have it since you are the architect of the INF treaty," said Shevardnadze. Reagan's surprise was as great as his gratification...
...hardly warm: not since 1952 has its occupant been re-elected. To extend that tradition, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy has been husbanding his cash for a final blitz to rescue his ailing campaign. Wilson is vulnerable for being wishy-washy; he withheld endorsement of the Reagan-Gorbachev INF treaty even longer than Senate Republican leader Bob Dole...
When Dukakis criticizes Bush's selection of Sen. Dan Quayle, for example, he doesn't stress that the Indiana Senator voted against civil rights legislation, child nutrition programs and the INF treaty. He doesn't mention that Quayle is as out of the mainstream as you can get. Instead, Dukakis tries to showcase Quayle's paltry experience and portray Bush's selection of him as incompetent...
EUROPE. The grand prize. Gorbachev's Westpolitik -- the INF treaty, his subtle wooing of the West Europeans with the notion of a "common European homeland," his gestures toward disarmament that have already propelled him in European public opinion polls higher than the President of the U.S. -- is calculated to advance the most important Soviet geopolitical objective of all, the detachment of Western Europe from America. The road to the breakup of the U.S.-European alliance is the denuclearization, leading to the neutralization, of Europe. This is a traditional Soviet objective. But ironically it may prove necessary for the success...