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...survey discovered a drop in the percentage of people whose greatest national concern is relations with the Soviet Union: 35%, down from 51% last December. Half of those polled think that Reagan has emphasized expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal rather than stressing negotiations on nuclear disarmament. A resounding 69% felt the President's emphasis should instead be on disarmament. Yet Americans are cynical about any change for the better. According to the poll, 55% think that the Soviets would not adhere to an arms-control agreement...
...slight easing of East-West tensions, was nonetheless welcome. When Secretary of State George Shultz emerged last week from the red brick residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Finland overlooking Helsinki harbor, walking in affable fashion alongside him was a smiling newcomer to the game of superpower politics, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, 57, appointed only a month ago. The two men paused briefly to exchange chitchat with the help of interpreters and to pose for eager photographers. Later Shultz declared that three hours of private talks with his Soviet counterpart had provided a "good first step" toward the Geneva...
...bring in the form of a spirited new round of East-West propaganda dueling. Both the White House and the Kremlin had been planning public relations moves in advance of the conference. As it turned out, the proposals they put forth were radically different. Responding in part to a Soviet complaint that a recent U.S. underground test of a nuclear device had exceeded the 150-kiloton limit permissible under the 1974 Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, President Reagan, in a letter to Gorbachev, invited the Soviet Union to send experts to monitor the next U.S. test...
...highly amateurish. Her writings on the Civil War--she calls Confederate soldiers "a romantic army of legend"--could only be penned by a (Northern) dilettante. And although she has admiringly cited the work of cold war historian Ronald Radosh, he says she misinterpreted that period in Treason. "There were Soviet spies in postwar America," he says. "But McCarthy was really a nutcase ... She's like the McCarthy-era journalists in a way. She's just repeating what they said, that the only patriotic Americans are on the right." Radosh, a fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank...
...judge this video. All I can tell you is that you should watch it and pick out your favorite Dadaist moment for yourself. Meanwhile, I’m gonna contemplate moving to Romania, where even myself, the gayest straight guy around, can score with some hot post-Soviet babushkas...