Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin will have a new leader. The choices range from younger, more worldly candidates like Mikhail Gorbaschev to the more conservative Konstantin Chernenko and Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov, who seems singlehandedly to have masterminded much of Russia's military buildup Further, Ustinov is one of the major power-brokers in the Politburo and is likely to influence heavily the choice of Andropov's successor. Although it would be wrong to overstate the United States' influence on the selection, it seems foolish for the administration to push the Soviets into...
...intercontinental bombers. The INF (intermediate Nuclear Force) negotiations deal with the so-called "Euromissiles." These nuclear devices--the Pershing. If ballistic missile, the Tomahawk cruise missile, and the Soviet SS-20-fit somewhat awkwardly into the "tactical" category. They are capable of striking all of Europe, including European Russia in a matter of minutes. Thus they are not, in any traditional sense, "tactical" weapons, but rather use intended to destroy European heartlands...
...Brannaman suggests that if the Israelis don't like "the solution, they could return in large numbers to Russia..." But the again, what does Mr. Brannaman understand of mutual friendship and self-determination and democracy? And to condemn Communism as a Jewish creation makes about as much sense as condemning philosophy as a pagan creation--the particular school of thought has nothing to do with the religion of the human beings who developed it. (Good gods! Evolution is a Christian creation, and algebra and astronomy are Moslem creations...
There are hundred of millions of Moslems and only three millions Israelis. If the Israelis did not like the solution, they could return in large numbers to Russia and the Constitution they created...
...Andrei Gromyko, 74, may want to postpone the transfer of power to a younger generation. But Andropov's evident frailty could prevent the kind of firm leadership that would keep his country from drifting aimlessly both at home and abroad. Said a U.S. Kremlin watcher: "You cannot run Russia from your bed, and the Soviet leaders, sooner or later, have got to face that...