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...Andropov started his second week in office, Kremlinologists watched every move for hints of possible changes in style or policy. The day before the inconclusive session of the Supreme Soviet began, party officials and editors across the Soviet Union had closely monitored bulletins from the government news agency, TASS, for word from a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. In theory, all decisions from the Politburo must be ratified by the Central Committee, and it was thought that Andropov would use the closed-door session to announce changes in the top ranks of the leadership...
...that will determine the course of world diplomacy is that between the U.S. and the Soviets. In the first week of the new Kremlin leadership, that crucial face-off has taken a small turn for the better. But already, there is a cacophonous counterpoint to the gentle mood music: TASS, the official Soviet news agency, huffed that Shultz's press conference indicated that the Reagan Administration remains committed to "a course of confrontation." If the new civility is not to give way once again to angry rhetoric, flexible and imaginative diplomacy will be required on both sides...
...comprehensive test ban would eliminate all nuclear blasts and thus prevent test-firing of warheads for the next generation of U.S. missiles. Apparently Reagan believes those tests are essential, even if for political reasons he is unwilling to say so. As for the Soviets, the official news agency TASS commented that Reagan's stated dissatisfaction with verification was "no more than a pretext for sabotaging the [test-ban] talks...
Syria's poor military showing has proved an acute embarrassment to the Kremlin. A high-level Soviet military mission traveled to Syria last month to assess fully the damage to Soviet-built weapons systems. In an unusual move, the official Soviet news agency TASS declared that all rumors that Soviet military equipment was inferior to the American-made arms in Israel's arsenal were "deliberately false" and a form of psychological warfare. Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin went out of his way to explain in a television broadcast that "more than 100 Israeli tanks were knocked...
...Vance for deep reductions in the strategic arsenals of both nations. But Vance said last week that some Soviet officials have told him their unwillingness to consider the plan may have been a mistake. Despite the sharp criticism of Reagan's speech by the official news agency TASS, the Kremlin so far has kept the door open to discussion. Radomir Bogdanov, a Soviet arms-control specialist who is deputy director of Moscow's Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, has been examining the President's initiative. He told TIME: "Reagan's proposals are not fair. They...