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...Berlin Wall. There was a peculiar similarity to the sunless corridors and bureaucratic fatigue of Moscow and Washington. Enemies became interdependent and sometimes indistinguishable; it was a case of the left hand strengthening the right. George Smiley in Britain needed his rival Karla in Moscow. NATO needed the Warsaw Pact. The CIA needed the KGB. And the spy novelists needed them...
...deja vu will sweep through the global village. The predecessors of these two men went through much the same ritual at numerous earlier summits. Here, once again, are the leaders of the "superpowers," as we've long called them, smiling, shaking hands and exchanging pens after revising the strange pact that has lasted for nearly 40 years: either we avoid going to war with each other or we blow up the world...
...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 of the U.S. was to prevent the Warsaw Pact from invading Western Europe and the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from launching nuclear war against the American homeland...
...enemy. For example, the political opposition to SALT II, completed in 1979 but never ratified by the U.S. Senate, was based more on fury over Brezhnev's expansionism and doubts about Jimmy Carter's ability to stand up to the Soviet challenge than on any substantive objections to the pact itself...
Even so, that may not be the end of it. The deal must be approved by two- thirds of the Philippine Senate. Jovito Salonga, president of the Senate, opposes any extension and predicts that ratification of the pact "will be difficult...