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MOSCOW--Secretary of State George Shultz and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov met today while arms control experts from both sides worked for a possible agreement on removing medium-range missiles from Europe...
...began with an instructive story. I will end with another. In 1966 the Soviet Union experienced its first great dissident event of the post-Stalin era -- the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, writers whose books were published in the West under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. Somebody had revealed their real names, and they were immediately arrested on orders of then KGB Chief Vladimir Semichastny. I was one of the Soviet writers who protested that trial...
...November, in Gorky, I was no longer simply aware of my heart, I could feel it burning, in flames. The Academy of Sciences Hospital in Moscow took ! an electrocardiogram and said there was nothing wrong. I went back to Gorky, taking with me a new book by Nikolai Yakovlev, CIA Target -- the U.S.S.R., which attacked both Andrei and me. (Yakovlev is a Soviet historian whose specialty is the U.S.) On April 25, 1983, I suddenly felt something sharp pierce me. I could not move or cry out. Then, slowly, almost creeping along, I reached Andrei's nitroglycerine pills...
...Soviet spokesman on arms control, General Nikolai Chervov, delivered an attack on the U.S. that had all the subtlety of a 20-megaton warhead. He accused the Reagan Administration of holding "murderous positions" and of conducting "dishonest negotiations." Fending off American concerns over the U.S.S.R.'s 308 ten-warhead SS-18 ICBMs, he asserted that the comparable American MX "is already in a state of operational deployment." In fact, not until the end of the year are the first ten MXs expected to be operational...
Howard wasn't the only defector last week. While the Soviets gained a spy, the U.S. took in a husband-and-wife high-wire duo from the prestigious Moscow Circus. Bertalina Kazakova and Nikolai Nikolsky walked into the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires last week and are now in Miami, where they may soon be hearing from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus...