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...halt the strategic arms race, the former Secretary of State recommends a dramatic new approach. His plan would scrap all MIR Vs starting in, say, 1990 and rely instead on a mix of mobile, single-warhead missiles. The U.S. would implement this plan even if the Soviets refused to go along...
...West tension, that barrier was broken in a small way: Soviet officials distributed 20,000 copies of the first issue of In the World of Science, a Russian-language version of Scientific American (worldwide circ. 1 million in eight languages) that is being produced under a licensing agreement with Mir, a Moscow publishing house. Said Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in an introductory editorial: "This publication in the U.S.S.R. acquires special significance at this time of limited international co operation...
...promising writer whose early fiction appeared in the 1960s in Novy Mir, the respected Soviet literary monthly, Vladimov has not had a word published in the Soviet Union since July 1969. His fiction evidently drew too accurate a portrait of how Stalin's shadow still hangs over the Soviet system. His best-known novel in the West, Faithful Ruslan, an imaginative story about a labor-camp guard dog who finds he cannot live in a world without prisoners, is available only to Soviets willing to risk passing along hand-typed copies...
...work touched base with the fundamental modernist movements, seizing and transforming something from each of them. From cubism and constructivism came the planar organization of form and the abstract language; from surrealism, the sense of encounter with a "personage," as basic to his work as it was to Miró's. Given enough found metal, he could launch into runs of astonishing inventiveness, like a jazz virtuoso improvising on a phrase. This happened most notably in 1962, when he was invited to make a sculpture for the Spoleto Festival in Italy. On going there he found, in the nearby...
Powell: To amplify something both of you said, it seems to me that there are two weapons of particular interest to the Andropov regime and particular concern to the United States. I would say on the strategic level, they will give more attention to faster MIR Ving of submarine launch missiles. It is the SS-20 that they care most about as an intermediate range system, it can reach anywhere in Western Europe. They are also mobile....highly accurate and can be used as counter-force weapons ... For exactly the same reason why the Russians say they are so distressed...