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...Beta Korchnoi, 50, who emigrated to Switzerland last year with their son Igor, 23, after the young man spent 30 months in a Siberian labor camp for refusing military service; after 25 years of marriage; in Wohlen, Switzerland. Korchnoi, who twice lost world championship matches to erstwhile Countryman Anatoly Karpov, pleaded with Leonid Brezhnev to allow his family to leave in 1978, though he was linked romantically with his Austrian-born manager, Petra Leeuwerik...
...nine-week absence. Said Rowny: "If the Soviet delegation is prepared to meet us halfway, there will indeed be progress." Later in the day, Rowny met for three hours with the U.S.S.R.'s deputy chief arms negotiator, Aleksei A. Oboukhov, who was subbing for Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov, absent and "slightly...
Rowny has conveyed a version of this gladiatorial analogy to his Soviet counterpart, Victor Karpov, at the negotiating table in Geneva. Rowny has also reminded Karpov of Smith's warning to Semyonov eleven years ago: the viability of the ABM treaty will depend on progress in offensive arms control...
Rowny and Karpov can raise these questions, but they do not have the authority to decide on answers. That can take place only at a higher level. Before he resigned two weeks ago, Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been busily setting up a "back channel" with the Soviet Ambassador in Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin, and a working relationship with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Haig had established himself as the Kremlin's principal point of contact on START. Now the Soviets are worried not only about Haig's departure, but about the possibility that Weinberger, who favored an even...
...however, Rowny and Karpov are still far apart as the 1984 presidential campaign gets under way-and if Ronald Reagan is feeling politically vulnerable on foreign policy issues-he may decide to retreat from his bold but one-sided opening proposal and settle for a limited, interim agreement. That way, he could claim to have accomplished something more in strategic arms control than just to have made a stubborn and unsuccessful try. -By Strobe Talbott