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...Ogarkov's reported demise was baffling, so was his reported return. There was speculation that he was never demoted, but was heading a secret project to help reorganize the Soviet Union's western defenses...
There was other compelling evidence last week that Gorbachev is carrying out a high-level shuffle of the Soviet military. The current Warsaw Pact commander, Marshal Viktor Kulikov, 64, it was rumored, had been given a lesser post. Marshal Vladimir Tolubko, 70, who was in charge of the country's strategic rocket forces, has retired. So has Marshal Alexei Yepishev, 77, chief of the powerful main political directorate of the army and navy; his replacement is General Alexei Lizichev, 57, currently political commissar of Soviet forces in East Germany. Western diplomats believe these changes bear the marks of Gorbachev...
Another of Gorbachev's recent appointments, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, will travel to Washington in September to meet President Reagan. Before that, Shevardnadze will see Secretary of State George Shultz in Helsinki, on July 30. Shultz may ask for an explanation of the latest confrontation between Soviet and American military personnel in East Germany. On June 13, a U.S. Army vehicle was rammed by a Soviet truck near Potsdam. One U.S. officer was injured slightly...
...were border conflicts. Henry [Kissinger, then National Security Adviser in the Nixon Administration] used to come in and talk about the situation. Incidentally, this was before the tapes. You won't have these on the tapes." He continues without changing his expression. "Henry said, 'Can the U.S. allow the Soviet Union to jump the Chinese?'--that is, to take out their nuclear capability. We had to let the Soviets know we would not tolerate that...
Should nuclear weapons be abolished? Impossible, he says. Without nuclear weapons the U.S. would always be a superpower because of its economy. But the Soviet Union would not be a superpower without the Bomb. In any case, the point is moot...