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After FBI agents caught John Walker Jr. trying to pass classified documents to a Soviet agent in rural Maryland last May, authorities said that Walker, a retired Navy chief warrant officer, had been spying for about 17 years. In betraying top-secret details of the military's communications systems, they said, Walker apparently recruited his son Michael, a clerk aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz, and several other helpers. Last week, three days before he was to go on trial before Federal Judge Alexander Harvey II in Baltimore, Walker accepted a plea bargain. Government sources confirmed that both...
...form. In his U.N. speech, the Prime Minister said that "if deemed necessary," peace talks "may be initiated with the support of an international forum, as agreed upon by the negotiating states." He suggested that permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the U.S., Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union) might be involved, an idea that seemed to give the Soviets entrée to the peace talks. But Peres quickly added that countries "who confine their diplomatic relations to one side of the conflict [should] exclude themselves." That effectively fenced off Peking and Moscow, which currently have no formal...
...issue of diplomatic recognition did not come up in a brief, unscheduled meeting between Peres and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze later in the week. Instead, Shevardnadze quizzed Peres about the fate of specific Soviet Jews who had emigrated to Israel from the Soviet diplomat's native republic of Georgia...
...relaxed, wide-ranging conversation that lasted for more than an hour, China's leader offered his thoughts on economic reform in his country and how it can be sustained, the new problem of corruption, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union and next month's Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva. As is his custom, Deng chain-smoked throughout the meeting. Speaking in his deep, heavily Sichuan-accented voice, he was by turns tough, charming and self-effacing. Excerpts from the session...
...Soviet-Chinese relations. The Soviet Union has new leaders, and the people of the world are watching to see what will happen. It is not clear where Gorbachev is going, or how far. Soviet strength in Asia has grown; that's true. Their naval strength in the Pacific is the same as their strength in the Atlantic. One-third of [their] strategic missiles are directed against the Asian Pacific region, and that includes China, of course. They have 1 million troops with modern equipment on the Sino-Soviet border...