Word: soviet
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What especially worries Kissinger is the possibility that if Moscow achieves overall strategic superiority it might gain powerful diplomatic leverage. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church questioned Kissinger's reasoning; the Idaho Democrat pointed out that even when the U.S. enjoyed nuclear superiority, the Soviets were not inhibited from building the Berlin Wall or putting missiles in Cuba. Kissinger riposted softly, "They might feel less inhibited if we didn't have superiority." While concern about Soviet superiority had been raised by other witnesses, such as the Joint Chiefs, it carried extra weight coming from Kissinger. Just five years...
...carefully proposing changes only in the "strategic environment," while keeping intact the painstakingly negotiated SALT II text, Kissinger was able to stress that his proposals would not require new bargaining with the Kremlin. Explicit Soviet approval would not be needed for the strictly unilateral actions sought by Kissinger. He thus distanced himself from those Senators who have demanded fundamental revisions in the accord, such as Henry (Scoop) Jackson of Washington and Jake Garn of Utah. Minority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee has also been seeking major changes of the pact's provisions, but he hinted that his position might...
...Senate testimony, Henry Kissinger exhorted the Congress and Administration to join in meeting what he believes is a very real Soviet threat. In an exclusive interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Kissinger expanded on the strategic themes of his testimony. Excerpts...
...Clearly we cannot ask the Soviet Union in effect to police the world for us by preventing situations adverse to our interests. You cannot ask the Soviet Union not to take advantage of what is in effect being handed to them. I have never accused the Soviet Union of directly causing the events in Iran. However, I believe that some of the things the Soviet Union did contributed to a climate of insecurity that helped to demoralize the leadership of Iran and encouraged its opponents. The network of semiterrorist and guerrilla-trained organizations that the Soviet Union finances and supports...
...Iran is not the principal example. The best examples of unrestrained Soviet conduct, in which they create the opportunity rather than simply reaping the harvest of our failure, are the dispatch of Cuban proxy forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the two invasions of Zaire from Angola, the Communist coups in South Yemen and Afghanistan, and the Soviet friendship treaty with Viet Nam just prior to Viet Nam's occupation of Cambodia. Also, there's the establishment of Soviet bases in Viet Nam and military depots in Ethiopia and Libya, the dispatch of air forces to Cuba...