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...Some ideas suggested by [Mondale], should they materialize in Washington's policy, would upen up certain possibilities for bringing the positions of the two powers closer on arms limitations and disarmament," Tass, the Soviet press agency, said encouragingly...
...sign that the Soviets grudgingly realize the need for contacts with the U.S. appeared two weeks ago in their domestic press and on the TASS foreign wire. In a historical analogy that would be hard to decipher anywhere outside the Soviet Union, the state media sought to justify Moscow's infamous 1939 nonaggression pact with Hitler as an attempt to avert a world war, and pointedly added that the lessons of that period were pertinent. Only an audience that has heard and read almost daily allusions to Reagan as a power-mad ideologue intent on crushing the Communist system...
...after Chernenko walked stiffly back onto center stage, there were more signs and wonders in the Kremlin. The official news agency TASS announced in a tersely worded bulletin that Military Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 66, had given up his post "in connection with a new appointment." The sudden change caught Western observers and Soviet officials alike completely off guard. Said a Washington military analyst: "It may be really important in terms of the succession struggle, or it may only be turmoil in the armed forces...
This latest diplomatic crisis began when the Soviet news agency TASS said that Moscow had proposed a joint statement that would commit the superpowers to negotiate on "the prevention of militarization of space." TASS also said the Soviets wanted to introduce a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite weapons and space-based missiles when proposed negotiations are scheduled to begin on Sept. 18 in Vienna. The Administration, however, also wants to look at "offensive" weapons, namely intermediate and intercontinental missiles, and it opposes the suggested moratorium since the U.S. has no operating antisatellite system and the Soviet Union...
...week's end TASS, clearly preferring public pressure to private diplomatic contacts, insisted again that the Vienna talks can begin only if the Administration agrees in advance to discuss a possible ban on space weapons...