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Pictorial glimpses of the Soviet first family are also hard to come by. Victoria, 74, is rarely seen in public. This month, however, TASS released several informal photographs of the President, some of them en famille. The portraits-of a seemingly contented, still vigorous man-happen to coincide with the renewal of Soviet-American arms limitation talks in Geneva, but the timing was governed by the approach of Brezhnev's 75th birthday...
...with those ulterior motives that Brezhnev has recently had such a field day at Reagan's expense. He has reiterated the Soviets' longstanding protestations that theirs is a purely retaliatory, "second-strike" doctrine; he has denounced the notions both of limited nuclear war and of victory in such a war as dangerous fantasies, and he has floated a proposal for a joint Soviet-American renunciation of first use. That innocent-sounding suggestion is actually thoroughly loaded, since it would undercut the threat of first use on which Western deterrence partially rests...
...state of Soviet-American relations. They have never been worse in recent times. The principal reason is that the Reagan Administration is embarking on a course of seeking confrontation with the Soviet Union. We often hear that perhaps American policy is not yet fully formulated. I think that is not so. There is a policy, and it is one of open anti-Sovietism backed by a spiraling of the arms race. Hardly a day goes by without some new invention about Soviet foreign policy, not just by the U.S. press but by officials of the Government. Frankly...
...Soviets seem far less hopeful than they were at the outset of this Administration that Reagan will end up, like earlier postwar conservative Republican Presidents, presiding over better Soviet-American relations than liberal Democrats. Says Svyatoslav Kozlov, a retired general who now writes on military affairs: "Our experience with Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon suggests that there may still be hope for avoiding a complete breakdown, but the paradox of our better relations with Republican Presidents is by no means predestined to be repeated with Reagan...
...china that was smashed a few days earlier by Secretary Weinberger." But Cap keeps smashing away. In Washington last week he told reporters that arms-control talks were contingent on the further reduction of Soviet troop levels near Poland. The State Department had to send messages to NATO capitals reassuring them of America's commitment to renewed negotiations. Haig publicly stated that Soviet-American talks are "under active consideration" and that an announcement would be made soon on resuming negotiations-a clear refutation of Weinberger's pessimistic attitude...