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Andropov's contributions to the breakdown of Soviet-American relations, in one sense, go back further than Reagan's. He became a full member of the Politburo in 1973, when Reagan was still Governor of California with no influence on U.S. foreign policy. Thus Andropov was part of the Kremlin leadership that did much to scuttle détente not long after it was launched...
...morning's bulletin from Vienna reported another chill of silence in the diminishing dialogue between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Negotiations on reducing conventional forces had gone into recess with the Warsaw Pact nations refusing to set a date for resumption of the talks. But that afternoon in the Oval Office Ronald Reagan's mood was sanguine, his bearing confident, as he discussed Soviet-American relations with three visitors from TIME. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Managing Editor Ray Cave and White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. The President was pleased to concentrate on that subject...
...Soviet relationship is today quite normal, and this is all to the good. Unlike the past, when American public opinion tended to swing from euphoria about détente to hysteria about the cold war, the public correctly perceives Soviet-American relations as basically antagonistic and competitive, though linked by a common interest in survival...
...heart of the Soviet-American confrontation lies one momentous riddle: Are the Soviets willing to start a nuclear war, and do they think they could...
...Nitze was due to fly to On Sept. 1, Nitze was due to fly to Santa Barbara and receive new negotiating instructions from Reagan. That was the day the world learned that the Soviets had downed a Korean Air Lines 747 over the Sea of Japan. Soviet-American relations, which had shown some tentative signs of a warming trend, turned frigid. Still, the West Europeans were anxious for movement in Geneva. In a U.N. speech that reiterated U.S. condemnation of the Soviets for shooting down the airliner, Reagan unveiled the new State Department proposal...