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...time about what the coup meant for both Soviet and American nuclear forces. Last week's White House proposal is Scowcroftian not only in its elimination of land-based multiple- warhead systems but also in its soft-pedaling of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a land- and space-based shield system Scowcroft has always believed was too expensive and unnecessary...
...powerful remark Saddam Hussein made before Operation Desert Shield turned into Desert Storm still gnaw at world opinion: "If Israel withdraws from the Arab territories, I may think of withdrawing from Kuwait...
However, the City Council's vote--which clearly indicated its commitment to shield Cambridge residents from the kind of developmental threat posed by businesses and institutions like MIT and Harvard--generated some opposition from the private sector...
...perestroika does have its appeal for some restive segments of the armed forces who could capitalize on the failed coup. The reform-minded Shchit (Shield) organization of former officers, which wants to abolish compulsory service in favor of a volunteer, professional army, may get more attention. Middle-ranking officers, especially veterans of the Afghan war, are impatient for a switch from massive conventional forces to the high-tech systems that the U.S. fielded so ably in the Persian Gulf. In their view, a market economy and the dismantling of the defense bureaucracy offer the only hope for modernizing the military...
Equally striking was the response from what used to be the most dreaded organization in the Soviet Union. Nothing. In the coup's aftermath, the KGB -- it calls itself the Sword and Shield of the Communist Party -- showed itself to be as divided and traumatized by the actions of its disgraced chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, as was another pillar of power, the army. Once the plot had unraveled, the agency released a statement declaring that "KGB servicemen have nothing in common with illegal actions by the group of adventurists." After a bewildering two-day shuffle of leaders, Vadim Bakatin, a liberal...