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...world's two best chess players have long had an unremitting rivalry. Gary Kasparov, 22, the game's new king, last week moved aggressively in an off-the-board battle, seeking to get out of a required February rematch with his Soviet archrival, Anatoli Karpov, 34. The youngest chess champion in history demanded the ouster of World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, who is up for re-election in 1986 and whom Kasparov accuses of favoring Karpov. The mandatory title defense "is perfectly illegal," said Kasparov in an interview in Le Figaro, "and I don't have to submit...
...limousines from their headquarters across from the city's botanical gardens, up the Avenue de la Paix, through a heavy iron gate, past a phalanx of Soviet sentries and onto the grounds of the Villa Rose, which houses the Soviet mission. Kampelman will be met by his counterpart, Victor Karpov. Inside a modernistic annex to the baroque mansion, the two delegations will take their places at a long table, with Kampelman flanked by two colleagues on the U.S. team, former Texas Senator John Tower and Diplomat Maynard Glitman. After an exchange of pleasantries, the negotiators will plunge into the tedious...
...Soviets are interested in such a trade since extensive American defenses would force them to invest in expensive countermeasures at a time when Mikhail Gorbachev wants to build up the industrial and civilian sectors of the economy. Karpov laid down a proposal in Geneva last fall under which the Soviet Union would give up half of its land-based warheads if the U.S. canceled SDI. There have been some high-level hints that the Soviet definition of cancellation would be a ban on testing and deployment but not on the research phase of the program...
...short notice, but it is holding itself in check under the agreements reached during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the '70s. Even though SALT II of 1979 was never formally ratified, and expired last month, the two sides have agreed to observe its terms while Kampelman and Karpov try to come up with a new accord in Geneva. However, that open-ended arrangement is in jeopardy. American hawks, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, accuse the Soviets of violating SALT II; in a private report to the President that was leaked last week, Weinberger urged that the U.S. respond with...
Another question is whether an agreement on intermediate-range missiles would be conditioned on U.S. renunciation of Star Wars. Negotiator Karpov told journalists in Geneva that elimination of so-called Euromissiles could be negotiated "without links to strategic or space weapons." But Gorbachev's statement asserted that large-scale reductions would be possible "only if the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. mutually renounce the development, testing and deployment of space strike weapons...