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Criminal!" declared one Soviet commentator. TASS, the government news agency, said that the decision illustrated Ronald Reagan's "cannibalistic instincts," and was "an extremely dangerous step toward the further spiraling of the arms race and enhancing the threat of nuclear war." Some Western European officials worried that the political fallout would damage the Atlantic Alliance by bringing on a new surge of pacifism and neutralism. But President Reagan, relaxing at his California ranch, was unfazed by the outcry. Said he of the Soviets...
Defense Secretary Weinberger, meanwhile, reiterated his customary harsh assessment of Soviet intentions and capabilities in a speech he gave at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. Charged Weinberger: "It is neither reasonable nor prudent to view the Soviet military buildup as defensive in nature." Both addresses got Soviet attention. TASS dismissed Haig's pledge of arms talks and assailed Weinberger's saber rattling. The Soviet news agency called the former an attempt to "whitewash the present aggressive course of the Washington Administration" and said the latter "can be qualified only as a call...
...Phnom-Penh, a Cambodian official scoffed at the idea of an effective U.N. peace-keeping force. In Moscow, TASS characterized the conference as a "provocative farce." Peking was outraged at the prospect of disarming the Khmer Rouge. At the U.N., the plan was opposed by Han Nianlong, China's acting Foreign Minister, who warned about Vietnamese "duplicity." At week's end a vague compromise plan was adopted that called for "appropriate arrangements" to ensure that armed Cambodian factions would not be able to prevent or disrupt elections-if any should ever occur...
...quadrennial Moscow International Ballet Competition, the first American to be so honored. "We didn't go for fire-works," says Amanda of her final-round pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty with Partner Simon Dow, 25. "We strove for purity." In a rare bow to a Western performer, TASS noted, "Her dancing was marked by spirituality, lyricism and purity of form." Audiences wholeheartedly agreed, giving her frequent ovations and besieging her with autograph requests when she left the Bolshoi Theater. Though the victory will most likely result in a flurry of guest-appearance offers from around the world, McKerrow...
...Egypt's former Prime Minister: "If the Arabs see the U.S. failing to check Israel, failing to improve Arab self-defense, failing to solve the Palestinian problem, what are they going to do? They will have no alternative but to turn to the Soviet Union." The Soviet news agency, TASS, called the Israeli raid an "act of gangsterism" and accused Washington of being a direct accomplice...