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These are gaps of potential utility to the Kremlin in crises far easier to imagine than a direct Soviet-American nuclear showdown. The Soviets' 3-to-l superiority in tactical nuclear weapons in Europe could help the Kremlin bluff and bully the West Europeans. Therefore the U.S. should devote more of its strained defense budget to improving the ability of America's allies to counter a new generation of mobile Soviet missiles...
While the Soviet military challenge has to be met with better military deterrence, the broader, longer-range Western response must be political as well. Soviet expansion has been made possible by an increased military capacity, but it is also the result of a breakdown in the relationship known as détente. As a political slogan, détente is discredited-probably forever. One problem was that it fostered unrealistic expectations, even euphoria, about the possibilities for Soviet-American friendship. But as a concept, détente has indisputable validity. The word means nothing more controversial than the reduction...
...good guys will come in last-especially in the present atmosphere of Soviet-American relations. The Reagan Administration has an opportunity to integrate arms control with American defense needs, but that will require flexibility and compromises on the part of both rearmers and disarmers...
...barrage of criticism was a carefully planned strategy aimed at shifting the balance in Soviet-American relations. For too long, the President and his advisers think, the U.S. has quietly accepted an unrealistic notion of detente that has permitted the Soviet Union to behave aggressively throughout much of the world. The Administration is particularly disturbed by mounting indications that the Soviet Union is behind terrorist activity that is intended to destabilize Western nations and their allies in the Third World. State Department Spokesman William Dyess provided specifics: Soviet aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization, the use of Cuba and Libya...
...Leonid Brezhnev's cordial meeting with Senator Charles Percy indicated, the Kremlin leaders want to appear willing to improve Soviet-American relations, despite the hard-line rhetoric by President-elect Reagan and his advisers. For political and economic reasons, they would generally like to restore détente-on their terms. But their conciliatory tone also has a propaganda motive: if relations worsen once Reagan enters office, the Kremlin wants to be in the best possible position to blame the U.S. Amplifying the signal Moscow has been sending Reagan, Brezhnev's chief spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, last week released...