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He has been cast as the arch-antagonist of arms control and Moscow's most ardent adversary in Washington. But for all his oft-quoted disparagement of the Soviet Union, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle had never been there. Last week Perle, as one of the key members of...
With his incisive mind, infighting skills and intense dedication to a hard- line ideology, Perle, 44, has emerged as the most influential Assistant Cabinet Secretary in 25 years. His pessimistic approach to arms control, along with a swarthy complexion punctuated by the dark circles of his eyes, has earned him...
But it is in Moscow that the confusion is most telling. When Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh held talks with Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington last month, he proposed a visit to Moscow by senior U.S. officials to explain the Administration's new position. By signaling the...
No single mission to Moscow is likely to bridge the wide differences on key arms-control issues that still divide the superpowers. U.S. officials call the trip a chance for "incremental movement" that is intended to "clarify" the differences on arms control rather than resolve them. Since many of these...
Last year hard-liners like Richard Perle asserted that SDI was exempt from the treaty's constraints on development and testing because it is based on exotic technologies unavailable in 1972. This Philadelphia-lawyerly reading was hotly disputed, not only by the Soviets but by the American negotiators who helped...