Word: reached
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...reported that the U.S was considering a joint action with France to drive Libyan troops out of Chad. According to the Post, a State Department planning paper about the deception campaign had suggested that a scheduled trip to Chad by a U.S. general "provides an opportunity for disinformation to reach Gaddafi that the U.S. and France are developing contingency plans for a 'Chad Option.' " Finally, the Journal claimed that the "Sea Wind" exercises, long-planned U.S.-Egyptian maneuvers under way in the Mediterranean at the time of its Aug. 25 story, "are intended to keep the Libyans off balance...
Then we received a telegram saying that the trial of Alexei Smirnov was beginning. On May 12, I went to Moscow. Smirnov would be tried the next morning.* I pictured the stairs to the bridge over the railroad tracks -- it had to be crossed to reach the courthouse. So many had been tried there: Bukovsky, Krasnov-Levitin, Tverdokhlebov, Orlov (Yuri Orlov, a dissident, and his wife Irina Valitova are being released in the wake of the Daniloff affair), Tanya Velikanova, Tanya Osipova, among...
...Soviet state or social system" and can lead to up to three years in a labor camp. In the next room, two women in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) uniforms did a body search and looked through my bag. They took copies of the letters that were supposed to reach my children before Andrei's hun ger strike. Kolesnikov barely glanced at them, so it was clear that he was already familiar with them...
Hopes of reducing the huge U.S. grain stocks, which may reach 211 million metric tons this year, withered last week when the Soviet Union violated a long-term agreement and failed to buy the 3.85 million tons of U.S. wheat remaining in this year's quota. In an effort to clinch the deal by last Tuesday's deadline, the Reagan Administration had agreed in August to subsidize the wheat, but it was not enough to keep the Soviets from going to competing suppliers. Two days after letting the U.S. deal lapse, Moscow signed a five-year pact...
Gorbachev is not so eager to reach an agreement with the U.S. that he will compromise Soviet security interests, nor so keen for perestroika that he will stint on defense. He sometimes feels compelled to remind his audience -- and certainly his critics -- that military security comes before economic well- being. But at the same time, SDI has forced Gorbachev and others to re- examine what they call "common security." For leaders who see themselves as the caretakers of a great revolutionary tradition, the men in the Kremlin are extremely conservative. They dislike discontinuity, uncertainty, unpredictability. SDI has compelled them...