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...Soviet SS-20's aimed at all major military installations and cities in Western Europe, but the American Pershing II and Cruise missiles about to be deployed to deter Soviet Hawkishness, the Greens demand that West Germany refuse to allow the new American weapons on its soil. The very threat of deployment has driven the Soviets to the bargaining table in Geneva, but if NATO succumbs to the Soviet propaganda designed to split Europe from the United States, and refuses to deploy, then the Soviets will enjoy a permanent advantage in intermediate range missiles and will have no reason...
...Rocky Mountain region, the people there "are closer to the soil," McManus suggests...
...Andropov era, the KGB has apparently been careful not to soil its own hands with murders of revenge, political assassination and other "wet" (bloody) affairs. A plot against the Pope would have demanded extreme caution, since it conceivably could have endangered Andropov's political prospects and damaged the Kremlin's European peace offensive. Says Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "If the West becomes convinced of Andropov's implication in this affair, it will not only diminish his international authority but shatter the modern, nonterrorist image that he has sought
...past 39 years, once characterized the relationship, "We will act as a common organism that has common lungs and a common circulatory system." Moscow, in turn, is so confident of the fealty of the country's 8.9 million people that no Soviet troops are stationed on its soil. Says an official in the West German Foreign Ministry: "The relationship is Pavlovian. The Soviets flinch, and the Bulgarians snap...
...effect has been devastating. At least 50% of the soil has oxidized and eroded, in some places exposing the barren lime rock. Buried septic tanks on Lake Okeechobee's shores have surfaced. The lake itself has receded, from a depth of 17 ft. in the 1960s to 9 ft. last year. Alligators have lost most of their eggs to artificial flooding in three of the past five years. Flooding also led to the deaths of 5,000 deer last year. The region's spectacular wading birds, many of them rarities, are equally threatened. Wood storks, for example, have...