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...then at Oxford, Talbott worked as a 1969 summer trainee at TIME's Moscow bureau, and has since returned to the Soviet Union more than a dozen times on reporting assignments. In 1970 and 1974 he translated and edited the two volumes of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs. His interest in Soviet affairs led naturally to a concern about arms control. Says Talbott: "At the most basic level, avoiding nuclear war is what Soviet-American relations are all about...
...Soviet-American relations are at the worst point since the Berlin Blockade," he said. "For the next 14 months, this country will be led by a man who thinks that the way to solve every problem is to send in the Marines...
...ONLY SANE POLICY this country can adopt is one that promotes the power of the Soviet civilian government at the expense of the military. Increased defense spending, the MX missile system, rhetorical duels and the like will serve solely to give the generals a boost. Detente--which didn't work simply because it was never really tried--is the solution. Increased economic, scientific, cultural and educational exchange, all mutually beneficial propositions, certainly won't make the current Soviet-American relationship worse. And these policies might just help any moderates that exist within the Soviet power structure to assert themselves...
...that in turn depends largely on the state of nuclear arms control. There Soviet-American relations are still very bad, and they could get a lot worse before the year...
Also, the momentum of Soviet-American relations between 1969 and 1972 was toward a summit and a treaty. That is not the case now. Despite the change in climate and a certain amount of course correction on both sides in recent months, Soviet-American relations are still in a state of drift, and below the surface, they are not drifting toward a summit. On the contrary, over the INF issue alone, they could be drifting toward a crisis. The two tracks of the 1979 NATO decision may end up leading to a spectacular collision, in which arms control crashes into...