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...treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. The reason: by dropping the B1, he is dramatically increasing U.S. reliance on the cruise missile, which the Russians view as the most worrisome threat in the American arsenal. The initial Soviet reaction to Carter's move was frosty. Commented Tass, the official Russian news agency: "The implementation of these militaristic plans has seriously complicated efforts for the limitation of the strategic arms race." Although the U.S. has proposed to the Soviets that air-launched cruise missiles be limited to a range of 1,500 miles, Carter may now come under pressure from...
More seriously, Pravda last week pointed to injustice to blacks and other minorities in the U.S., accusing Carter of "closing his eyes to the suffering of tens of millions of U.S. citizens who are without rights." Earlier, Tass had accused Carter of "using the most absurd and wild concoctions borrowed from the stock in trade of reactionary bourgeois propaganda." At his press conference last week, Carter observed: "I believe that the pressure of world opinion might be making itself felt on them, and perhaps I'm kind of a scapegoat...
Maybe not, but the Communists were certainly acting as if they did. As aid for Mobutu poured in, Angola charged that the war in Zaire was being "internationalized"-an odd complaint for a regime that owes its existence to Cuba and the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Tass declared that "external forces" were interfering in "the internal struggle in Zaire." Even as the Western powers were afraid that the fighting would topple Mobutu, the Soviets were apparently worried that a strong Zaire counterattack might weaken the shaky government of President Agostin-ho Neto in Angola, which still faces resistance from...
Whatever the outcome of the actions against the Shevchenko, Washington's message to Moscow was apparently received loud and clear. The news agency Tass announced late last week that the Kremlin has given Soviet fishing captains "instructions on strict observance" of the U.S. 200-mile zone...
...Senate last week unanimously adopted a resolution condemning "the recent beatings, imprisonment, and harassment of Soviet Jews and other minorities trying to obtain emigration visas." Tass responded that the gesture was "pure balderdash" and claimed that "98.4%" of those who have sought to leave Russia in the past five years have been allowed to go. Substantiating the Senate's concern, however, two Jewish "refuseniks" (would-be emigrants not allowed to leave the country) who attempted to contact U.S. embassy officials in Moscow were manhandled and hustled away by security agents...