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...reported last week that "fierce, mighty weapons"-presumably, short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give a due rebuff to the aggressor." But if Moscow was stiff as ever about intermediate-range missiles, Gro myko did suggest that the Soviets would return, probably in mid-March, to the Vienna negotiations on the reduction of conventional forces in Europe, which the Soviets "suspended" just before Christmas...
...contrasted sharply with his reputation as a right-wing extremist. The boyish-looking onetime Salvadoran police major, now 40, has consistently tried to delay implementation of U.S.-sponsored efforts at land reform in El Salvador. Last November, D'Aubuisson was refused an entry visa to the U.S., a rebuff linked to his alleged ties to the country's nefarious right-wing death squads. For the present, however, he wishes to appear a man of the people, and is running hard in a long-awaited presidential-election campaign that is crucial both to his country's future...
...soon a "Recall Blanchard" movement was launched. Within weeks, petitions were circulating across the state to gather the 760,000 signatures necessary to call a special election. Although Lauve and his followers missed the mark, they did get 522,000 names during the allotted 90-day period, a significant rebuff to the tax increase and enough to surprise the initially unconcerned Blanchard...
...policy into the trap warned against by Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter. Said Brzezinski, of foreign ventures generally: "We are forever in danger of getting just enough involved not to succeed, yet still to be responsible for failing." Unhappily, the Administration's bungling and Congress's rebuff last week have made that risk in Central America all the greater...
...decline and eventual death of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviets clearly had a stake in demonstrating that the capacity of the nation's leadership was not again in question because of the failing health of their supreme leader. The West Germans, for their part, chose to believe that no rebuff was intended. Still, as one Bonn official remarked, "In Moscow, you never can be sure...