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...think it needs and the greater the danger that competition will spin out of control. Conversely, only when defenses are constrained can offenses be reduced. That's the connection -- the "linkage," as the diplomats and strategists call it -- between the accord limiting antiballistic missiles (ABMs) that Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev concluded in 1972 and the treaty capping the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed last week...
...because what is happening inside the U.S.S.R. these days is so unfamiliar, this week's signing will have about it an air not just of old business but also of anachronism. When START began in 1982, the Kremlin was under the control of Leonid Brezhnev, whose armies occupied Afghanistan as well as Eastern Europe. The tenant in the White House was Ronald Reagan, who spoke for much of the world in denouncing the U.S.S.R. as an "evil empire," led by men who "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." The No. 1 task...
...sale." Faced with the G-7 decision that no hard cash would be offered yet, the Soviets shifted gears. "It would be naive," spokesman Vitali Ignatenko assured reporters, "to say that we expect President Gorbachev to come away with black limos filled with money." Soviet Ambassador to Britain Leonid Zamyatin passed the word that Gorbachev was reworking his economic reform plan...
...Leonid Kravchuk, the chairman of the parliament, leads a bloc of Communists who have broken with hard-liners in the party to form a coalition with moderates in the democratic opposition. He is negotiating with Moscow for a "renewed union" more like a common market than the federation Mikhail Gorbachev advocates. Kravchuk may quit the party to run in the republic's first presidential election this fall...
Traces of that attitude linger. During the parliamentary debate, Deputy Leonid Sukhov, a taxi driver from the Ukraine, warned that free movement of citizens in and out would open the Soviet borders to AIDS. Officers of the KGB border guards mounted an exhibit of guns and drugs seized by customs agents as a warning of what could be expected if the frontiers are opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly...