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...Soviets like to say, "no accident" that in the same month as Brezhnev's Tula speech, Nikolai Ogarkov became chief of the Soviet general staff. Marshal Ogarkov was a controversial choice among the top brass. He had been the top military representative to SALT. The civilian leadership apparently picked him because he too believed in sufficiency, parity and stalemate. He also favored Soviet-American agreements as a means of regulating the arms race...
...however, was no dove. The money saved by relying less on nuclear missiles he wanted to spend on advanced conventional weapons. He did not want those rubles diverted to the beleaguered Soviet consumer economy. He was finally demoted in September 1984. But the new chief of the general staff, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, was also a proponent of the idea that enough is enough in nuclear weaponry...
...customary, 48 seniors--24 men and 24 women--were elected this week to the Phi Beta Kappa chapters for Harvard and Radcliffe. The organization is "designed to recognize academic achievement," said John M. Glazer '88, First Undergraduate Marshal for the Alpha (Harvard) Chapter of Massachusetts...
...except in the need for some kind of reform, they are united on foreign policy," he says of the Soviet leaders. "They really do need a grand detente, and Gorbachev has a considerable mandate to get it." In particular, Gorbachev seems to have the support of the Soviet military. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief of the Soviet general staff, accompanied Shevardnadze to the meeting in Geneva and, by Shultz's account, was a "key person" in working out the verification measures that clinched the INF deal...
...Crimson of October 14, an article on the class marshal finalists omitted the names of two finalists. The names of Johnathan O. Williams '88 and Fiona V. Anderson '88 were omitted...