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...Washington, the freighter's turnaround was proof that eight months of intensive and mostly secret Soviet-American diplomacy was paying off, an important signal that a tortured and bumpy attempt to end the conflict in Central America was back on track. The drama didn't end with the Vladimir Ilyich's recall. A good deal of hard bargaining between Washington and Moscow ensued. But when Nicaragua finally held its first free election in February, and the Sandinistas peacefully transferred power to the opposition that had defeated them, the superpowers had reason to celebrate. They had shown they could work together...
While the importance of the Soviet-American cooperation in Central America should not be exaggerated, it can serve as a model of trust and shared success, a potential bridge across rocky moments ahead. An example occurred last April, when Baker and Shevardnadze appeared stalled on an arms-control agreement that had seemed virtually sealed in February. On both sides, the mood was glum. During a break in the discussions, Aronson and Pavlov conferred in a small room on the State Department's seventh floor. As Shevardnadze walked by, Pavlov introduced him to Aronson. For the first time in two days...
Arab capitals, aware of the implications of the new statistics, are warning of higher tension and instability in the Middle East. Some of them hint at Soviet-American collusion; most assume that Israeli hard-liners will count on immigrants to help tighten their grip on the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq called the arrivals "a catastrophe befalling the Arab world." The government-run Egyptian daily al-Ahram was equally impassioned. "This is a blatant invasion," one of the paper's columnists said, blaming "American and Soviet strategies" that...
...speech, which was co-sponsored by the IPPNW and the Soviet-American Medical Student Exchange (SAMSE), is part of a week-long program devoted to bringing about the exchange of ideas between a visiting group of Soviet medical students and students at the Medical School...
...given the sweeping transformations under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make...