Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow once, Warnke felt the urgency in Leonid Brezhnev's pleading for peace. Back in his hotel room, Warnke pondered it all while watching the war movies that saturate Soviet television. He decided to take Brezhnev a bit at his word...
...Geneva, Warnke measured the Soviet negotiators across the table, difficult and different men. They came with well-developed inferiority complexes...
...They liked the talks," recalls Warnke, "'because they were treated as a superpower. They have no great characteristics of a superpower except military power." Time and time again the sense of loneliness showed itself. The Soviet Union has no real allies in the world. Partnerships are forced, unreliable. On every horizon, Warnke concluded, the Soviets see some threat. They sit on their massive land, powerful and friendless, driving for acceptance in some manner, maybe by force, but maybe through treaties like SALT...
...like Vladimir Semyonov, 67, with whom Warnke dealt, the Soviet Union seemed a miracle that they do not want scorched or disfigured. Semyonov was a boy during the Revolution, lived through the Stalin terror, survived World War II. Warnke decided that this kind of pain is not habit forming in such...
...fiscal 1980. Much of the increase will go for strengthening U.S. forces in Europe as well as for upgrading the nation's strategic arsenal of nuclear-equipped missiles, planes and submarines in order to improve the Administration's bargaining stance in the current SALT talks with the Soviet Union. Carter proposes, for example, to order the eighth submarine in the $21 billion-plus Trident program, in which costs have been shooting out of sight. He also calls for spending $237.5 million to continue development of the cruise missile system, which the Pentagon wants as a counterweight...