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Record, and frequently opens its doors to visiting Americans for interviews and round-table discussions. Last week, Arbatov had a day of talks at the institute with Columbia University Kremlinologist Marshall Shulman, former Paris Peace Negotiator Cyrus Vance and former Pan American Airways President Najeeb Halaby...
...could not seem to agree on what to make of the re-escalation. Where Joseph Kraft had Nixon "courting confrontation" with Moscow, James Reston spoke of a "temporary expression of presidential frustration and anger rather than a calculated plan to force a showdown." Victor Zorza, the London-based Kremlinologist, saw the bombing strategy as "a deep game designed to exploit the differences between the hawks and the doves in the Kremlin in order to maneuver Moscow into bringing about a peace settlement in Viet Nam." The New York Post's James Wechsler pooh-poohed any pretense of preplanning: "What...
Died. Llewellyn Thompson, 67, diplomat and Kremlinologist; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Thompson made deft use of two valuable assets: patience and a thorough knowledge of his opponent. The career Foreign Service officer successfully negotiated the Austrian State Treaty with the Russians, ending Austria's postwar occupation, and the Trieste settlement resolving the Italian-Yugoslav dispute over the Adriatic seaport. His two tours as Ambassador to Moscow (1957-62 and 1967-69) covered some explosive moments in U.S.-Soviet relations, including the U-2 incident and the 1961 Berlin crisis, but through it all Thompson maintained excellent rapport with...
...English Kremlinologist Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror, an exhaustive study of Stalin's purges of the '30s, says of the Medvedev history: "It is the first full attempt by a Russian to deal with the Stalin period, and gives by far the most detailed account yet of the errors and horrors of Stalinism...
...most recent newcomers to the group, however, include individuals who have had lengthy service as industrial administrators. The younger men are also better educated, often holding college degrees in specialized fields. Harvard Kremlinologist Leon Smolinski neatly distinguishes the older party hacks from the young technocrats by referring to the rivalry between "the professional Communists and the Communist professionals...