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Soviet brutality and blatant disregard for human rights was sharply brought into focus yesterday when Moscow security police beat and arrested CNN's Moscow bureau chief for "assaulting a Soviet citizen." The Kremlin must be complimented on its novel way of describing a journalist watching a refusnik protest. For most Russians, such incidents are a part of everyday life...
...make no mistake about it, the Kremlin is continuing its massive investment in offensive strategic and theater nuclear forces, as well as in conventional land, sea, and air forces that go far beyond any legitimate defense needs. The Soviet military already is beginning deployment of newer and more dangerous weapon systems: the Delta IV missile submarine, the Blackjack supersonic bomber, and the SS-25 mobile ICBM. Even if Gorbachev is sincere about his desire to devote resources spent on the military sector to the civilian economy, he has not been able to control or convince his military...
...that INF will force the Soviets to destroy more missiles than we will. But these observers fail to see the treaty's strategic and political significance. The INF treaty is not the bargain it seems because an increasingly denuclearized Europe favors the Soviet advantage in conventional weapons--allowing the Kremlin to use its military superiority to threaten the West in a crisis. The removal of the Pershings will breed NATO infighting over who will bear a heavier defense burden and may portend an eventual American pullout from Western Europe...
...candidates for the Republican presidential nomination oppose the treaty, under which the Soviets will dismantle three times as many warheads as the West. That's not good enough. The most conservative president of this century, it turns out, is no more than a "useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda," according to the head of the Conservative Caucus, one of the president's earliest and (until now) most ardent supporters...
Acknowledging a shift in the once-rigid Soviet opposition to Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense plan, known formally as the Stategic Defense Initiative, White House chief of staff Howard Baker said the Kremlin's position "now is a little different than it appears to have been a few weeks or a few months...