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Hopes for arms control now, however, will make it difficult for subsequent administrations to secure adequate defense appropriations from Congress. In contrast, the handful in the Kremlin who make Soviet policy can reverse arms reductions at a word. When the Soviets someday shatter our misplaced idealism, and they will, American public opinion will shift--and if history holds, shift...
...since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Indeed, questions about the limits of the new reforms will be on the minds of the Kremlin's leaders as they mark the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, just as the issue was discussed by those gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People last week to plot their country's course. The debate is not only about the future but also about...
When schism split the East bloc in 1960, Moscow and Beijing became clinched in an acrimonious contest for ideological supremacy. The Kremlin no doubt felt relief at the end of the Maoist era. Nonetheless, the mixture of central planning and market economics that developed in China starting in 1978 initially prompted criticism that Beijing was heading down the capitalist road. Since Gorbachev launched his own brand of Communist reconstruction early last year, mutual suspicion has given way to cautious interest and growing - cooperation. Last year China exported $1.2 billion worth of goods to the Soviet Union, compared with only...
...serve as a lifeline for Ronald Reagan's foundering presidency: the long- awaited and much heralded visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to the U.S. But the Soviet leader was curiously circumspect as he posed with the Secretary of State last Friday in the ocher-colored St. Catherine Hall of the Kremlin's Great Palace. "I think this will happen," he replied, somewhat evasively, when reporters questioned him about the prospects for a summit. Asked whether he would like to see just Washington or the rest of the country, he again sounded a note of doubt. "I would like...
...remained high on the Kremlin agenda when Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived in Washington last month to work on the details of the INF pact. He brought with him a proposal refining Soviet demands that research and development of Star Wars weapons be restricted. Under the new Soviet plan, defensive technology in five categories -- kinetic kill vehicles, particle and laser beams, electromagnetic weapons, and space-based mirrors -- could be tested anywhere, including in space, as long as they were less powerful than certain agreed-upon levels, or "capacity thresholds." The testing of more powerful systems would be confined to laboratories...