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...conscientious objector, Mendelsohn became involved with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker Service organization. At that time, he dealt with the Soviet-American conflict, specifically with issues of disarmament. In 1968, a problem arose in a refugee camp in Gaza. The American Friends Service Committee asked Mendelsohn to swing by and help out; he has been involved with the Middle East ever since...
...know, there is one particular issue where the national interests of the Soviet Union and the U.S. are completely identical. This is the problem of stability in the Soviet Union. If we manage to control our domestic situation, & we can count on good Soviet-American relations. If our country should plunge into anarchy, it will be hard to predict the consequences and how they will affect our relations...
...Vessenski returned to the Soviet Union to head up an ambitious project to publish a Soviet-American English-language newspaper, the Literary Gazette. But he left after producing only six issues of the semi-weekly newspaper, he says, because he realized his heart lay in writing, not administration...
...amply demonstrated on June 20, 1989, at the first and only Central America negotiating session he attended with Bush Administration representatives. For almost two hours, Komplektov did little but rehash old Soviet positions while lecturing Assistant Secretary of State Bernard Aronson about the sensibilities of small Latin nations condemned by geography to live in Washington's shadow. Key U.S. and Kremlin aides agree that the subsequent Soviet-American cooperation that resulted in Nicaragua's first free elections would never have been possible if Komplektov had controlled the talks that followed...
While Gorbachev's objectives are different from Bush's on many points and incompatible on some, they're not, at root, necessarily directed against the U.S. That is the distinguishing feature of the current, and probably coming, phase of Soviet-American relations. It's also the key difference from the past. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev all defined Soviet gain in terms of Western, and more specifically American, loss. Gorbachev has shown that while he will go his own way when he feels it necessary, he will also look for areas where he and Bush can move in tandem. Call...