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Attacked from both left and right, Botha is campaigning as a "moderate" with a ferocity that only Afrikaners could consider moderate. Choosing the U.S. as his favorite target, Botha at an election rally in Lichtenburg in the Transvaal declared that the congressional sanctions against South Africa meant the Kremlin "had its work done for it in Washington." Waving his arms, Botha insisted, "South Africa is the scapegoat of America's bad conscience, ((but)) the South African government is not prepared to surrender." Some 2,000 Afrikaners leaped to their feet, applauding wildly. Carrying his campaign to restive Stellenbosch last week...
...believe that Gorbachev is eager for a deal primarily because it would strengthen his hand against opponents of his economic and cultural reforms within the U.S.S.R. Gorbachev, says Cesare Merlini, president of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, is thinking mostly of winning the "power struggle within the Kremlin...
During his talks in Moscow, Shultz raised several other issues. In an interview on Soviet television, he repeatedly criticized the Kremlin for occupying Afghanistan. He pressed Gorbachev on human rights, particularly Jewish immigration. That irritated the Soviet leader, who approved a TASS commentary rebuking Shultz for attending a Passover Seder with a number of Soviet refuseniks. Gorbachev showed little flexibility on any of these matters...
...shorter-range missiles, Gorbachev has been changing bargaining offers with lightning speed. Some Americans wonder whether, by the time the U.S. and its European allies work out an answer to the Kremlin's latest proposals, Gorbachev may not have one or several new ones. As the U.S. and its allies consider a response, they must remain alert to the possibility, as Britain's Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe put it, that the "swiftness of the Soviet hand could deceive the Western...
...heart of the debate is the ongoing attempt by the superpowers to manipulate each other's nightmares of war in order to maneuver for advantage in times of peace. The West has long wanted the Kremlin to fear that a Soviet attack on Europe, even with conventional weapons, might provoke American nuclear retaliation. That fear, in turn, is supposed to deter the Soviets from bullying Western Europe militarily or throwing its considerable weight around politically...