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Bonner came under savage attack last week in Izvestia. The government daily accused Bonner of pushing her husband into anti-Soviet activities. The commentary described her as a "shallow, resentful and greedy person" whose primary goal was to flee to the West "even if it meant over her husband's dead body." Izvestia also repeated allegations that the U.S. embassy in Moscow had involved Sakharov's wife in a "provocative operation...
...want to feel confident that deterrence works the other way and that they could retaliate effectively against an American attack on them. There is no room in the concept of mutual deterrence for one side to claim, as Reagan did, a monopoly on virtue and peaceful intentions. Sure enough, Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, launched a rhetorical counterstrike at Reagan, accusing him of turning "Washington into a dangerous hotbed of thermonuclear confrontation." Nor is there any way to exorcise from deterrence what Reagan called "the specter of retaliation." That specter is in the nature of nuclear weapons. As Winston Churchill...
...week's end, the government newspaper Izvestia published a tiny news item on the affair. The article, in its entirety, said: "In connection with the fact that the parents of Y.K. Alexeyeva have withdrawn their objections to her leaving the Soviet Union, a decision has been taken to grant her an exit visa by way of exception." It was the first announcement to the Soviet public that Sakharov had won his battle with the Kremlin...
...Soviets angrily deny the accusation of American hard-liners that the U.S.S.R. has its own doctrine of "fightable and winnable" nuclear war. Says Alexander Bovin, an Izvestia commentator and party official: "When a general talks to his troops, he tells them, 'We can win!' That is natural and unavoidable. But when civilian political figures talk about being able to fight and win a nuclear war, that's when we should all worry. Our politicians don't. Yours...
Alexander Bovin, an Izvestia columnist and party official, agrees: "The Nixon model is, in theory, still not excluded. But you Americans say Reagan is different from his predecessors in that he will fulfill his campaign promises-including, presumably, the most anti-Soviet ones...