Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mitterrand could hardly be described as a pushover for Soviet blandishments. After taking office in 1981, he suspended the frequent Franco-Soviet summit meetings that had been, as a Mitterrand adviser put it, a "liturgical institution" of detente. On a visit to Moscow last year, Mitterrand took the ailing Kremlin leadership of the day to task for its treatment of Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov. Moreover, the public mood in France these days is viscerally anti-Soviet. Said a French official: "Nowadays, everybody is repelled by the Soviets, who have discredited themselves in so many ways...
...interview with three French questioners, which was broadcast in both the Soviet Union and France. The session revealed little that was new. In a 20- minute opening statement, Gorbachev, who cut a sober, dark-suited figure while seated behind an ornate Louis XV-style writing table in the Grand Kremlin Palace, struck the broad themes of his upcoming trip. He lauded recent Soviet arms-control initiatives and declared that "we are ready for other radical decisions." He even invoked De Gaulle as a source of inspiration. Said Gorbachev: "Ours is a Gaullist approach. We must live in the same house...
...source of that impression was not hard to locate. Along with his energetic new Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbachev was followed closely by aides who have been writing speeches for Kremlin leaders for nearly 20 years. Among them were scholarly, multilingual Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, a foreign policy adviser since 1966, and rubicund Leonid Zamyatin, head of the Soviet Central Committee's international information department since 1978. Zamyatin in particular appeared to confirm that there was a conscious attempt to temper the General Secretary's ebullience. He soon quoted his boss to the effect that "there is no Gorbachev style. Therefore...
...Soviets were outraged. The news agency TASS condemned the Katakov killing as an "atrocity that cannot be pardoned." Israel, TASS added, was indirectly responsible because it was the "prime cause of internal Lebanese strife." In Paris, where Mikhail Gorbachev was meeting with French officials, a Kremlin spokesman said that the Soviet leader was doing "everything possible" to free the three remaining hostages...
...Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists on the report, Defense Intelligence Agency Specialist James McCrery asserted that "for a long time" the Soviets "have been devoting very heavy resources" to developing all the technologies now involved...