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Pictorial glimpses of the Soviet first family are also hard to come by. Victoria, 74, is rarely seen in public. This month, however, TASS released several informal photographs of the President, some of them en famille. The portraits-of a seemingly contented, still vigorous man-happen to coincide with the renewal of Soviet-American arms limitation talks in Geneva, but the timing was governed by the approach of Brezhnev's 75th birthday...
...official warnings against carrying out the planned national strike. Early in the week, authorities declared that Solidarity's walkout "would be met with actions commensurate with the threat." A group of party hard-liners raised the chilling possibility of "shedding fraternal blood." Moreover, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that "counterrevolutionary" forces were using the strike to "blackmail" the Warsaw regime...
...next day, TASS, the official Soviet news agency, used Reagan's remarks to exploit the swelling movement of neutralism and pacifism in Europe that is suspicious of U.S. intentions. Declared TASS: "The U.S. would like Western Europe to face all the risks of a thermonuclear catastrophe while the U.S. keeps away from...
Taking issue with the TASS statement, Reagan also declared: "The suggestion that the U.S. could even consider fighting a nuclear war at Europe's expense is an outright deception. We regard any military threat to Europe as a threat to the U.S. itself; 375,000 U.S. servicemen [stationed in Europe] provide the living guarantee of this unshakable U.S. commitment to the peace and security of Europe...
...booklets (at a cost of $40,000, with copies available to the public at $6.50 each), and there are plans to translate the booklet into five languages (German, French, Japanese, Italian and Spanish). The study, however, received a negative review from at least one interested reader. TASS, the Soviet news agency, derided the report as just a "colorful booklet" and denounced Weinberger for "gushing a barrage of irresponsible verbiage." -By James Kelly. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/ Washington