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...being set (by Washington) for a bout between some kind of political 'supergladiators,' with the only thought in mind being how best to deal a deft blow at the opponent." He implied that the U.S. is deliberately trying to engineer a failure. There is still time to prepare to reach specific agreements, but not much time, he said. In fact, "the train might have already left the station...
...arms control: Unless the U.S. agrees to stop work on its Star Wars program, which aims to develop a shield against atomic warheads, "it will not be possible to reach an agreement on the limitation and reduction of (offensive) nuclear weapons either . . . Thus, if the present U.S. position on space weapons is its last word, the Geneva negotiations will lose all sense." (The reference was not to the forthcoming summit but to arms- limitation talks already under way in the Swiss city.) But Gorbachev was significantly more flexible on the issue of defensive research than his negotiators have been...
Gorbachev appears to tailor his messages carefully to the particular foreign audience he is trying to reach. He has spared little effort in wooing India, a nonaligned but friendly country. When Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Moscow in May, Gorbachev appeared in person at the door of Gandhi's Kremlin apartment ten minutes before they were to begin talks in another part of the Kremlin. He threw an arm around Gandhi and said, "Spring is here. I suggest we skip the limousines and walk to our meeting. You and I can take care of the protocol boys...
Wick is particularly eager to reach West European youth, whom he regards as ) dangerously "neutralist," in part because they lack a memory of the U.S. Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II. Frets Wick: "They don't have the indissoluble link with their blood brothers fighting totalitarianism...
Radio Moscow's 37,500-kW transmitters can reach billions of radios, but that hardly guarantees everyone will listen. In pro-Soviet North Yemen, for instance, only 14% of listeners tune in Radio Moscow, compared with 47% for the BBC and 26% for the Voice of America. Furthermore, to be heard is not necessarily to be believed. Soviet propaganda is greeted around the world with large doses of skepticism, even in the U.S.S.R. Soviet visitors to the U.S. sometimes express shock to see people out of work. Having read so much about rampant U.S. unemployment in the Soviet press, they...