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...seaboard, undetected, and start lobbing nuclear missiles at major population centers. Or threaten to. Being the sort of man who thinks he ought to help prevent World War III, not start it, Ramius enlists his key officers in a conspiracy to hoodwink the rest of the crew (and the Kremlin, of course) and deliver Red October to the Yankee imperialists...
That bedrock contention of the cold war simply does not stand up these days. Insofar as the Kremlin still calls the tune, it is sounding retreat. In the past year the U.S.S.R. has removed its army from Afghanistan, prevailed on Viet Nam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, and helped begin extricating the Cubans from Angola...
...Japanese, who take hope from recent negotiations with the Soviets over the Kurile Islands, urged Cheney to keep U.S. pressure on the Kremlin to reduce its military strength in Asia. As for the 50,000 American troops in Japan and its outlying island of Okinawa, Cheney said the U.S. plans to withdraw only about 5,000 over the next three years. The U.S. also wants the Japanese to increase the $2.8 billion they now pay toward the $6 billion annual cost of keeping American forces in Japan...
...much more ethnic violence can the Soviet Union endure? A month after anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...
Music and joy have always been "Slava" Rostropovich's great goals, but he is also remarkable for his repeated refusals to bow down before the Kremlin. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came under fire for his books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters...