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...Soviet-American relations-as seen from the Kremlin...
Your neighbors on the T are members of a growing community of Soviet immigrants, the vast majority of them Jews, who have settled in the Hub area over the past six or seven years. They are part of an on-again-off-again diaspora of Soviet Jews, whose numbers rise and fall with each chill and thaw in Soviet-American relations...
...Administration has begun to redress the Soviet-American military balance in the region. The U.S. has negotiated agreements with Somalia, Kenya and Oman for access to their ports and airfields in a crisis. Borrowing vessels from its Mediterranean and Pacific fleets, the U.S. Navy has stationed two nuclear-armed aircraft carrier groups in the Indian Ocean and a five-vessel task force in the area of the gulf itself. In March the Pentagon announced the creation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, a reservoir of more than 200,000 troops from which the President could draw an instant expeditionary...
...Soviet-American relations have been on a downward slide since 1974, when Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate ?an event that some Soviets still regard as part of a sinister plot by American hard-liners to unseat a President who then favored a policy of accommodation with the U.S.S.R. Those relations fell off a cliff when Jimmy Carter became President. Looking back over the past 3½ years, Soviets launch into a long, angry, but obviously one-sided litany of grievances: the President's letter to dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov barely three weeks into Carter's presidency; Carter's ill-fated...
Until the Soviets modify their behavior, especially in the Third World, it will be virtually impossible to resurrect détente. In the meantime, one task for America is to correct any dangerous gaps that have developed in the Soviet-American military relationship. Another task is to face the Soviets with political firmness and sophistication. That means eventually resuming carrot-and-stick diplomacy?with an effective stick, to be sure, but also with the restoration of those carrots that the Soviets complain have been thrown away. Only thus can the superpowers reverse the vicious cycle of retribution and recrimination that...