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...Tula Line...
...necessarily meant more security and power for the U.S.S.R. The Kremlin initiated a gradual shift in emphasis away from nuclear weaponry to conventional weaponry as instruments of Soviet influence and intimidation, particularly in Europe. In January 1977 Brezhnev gave a speech at a World War II commemorative celebration in Tula, a city south of Moscow. The Soviet leader laid down what became known in the West as the "Tula line." In that speech and subsequent elaborations, Brezhnev said nuclear superiority was "pointless," it was "dangerous madness" for anyone even to seek victory in a nuclear war, and the Soviets needed...
...Soviets like to say, "no accident" that in the same month as Brezhnev's Tula speech, Nikolai Ogarkov became chief of the Soviet general staff. Marshal Ogarkov was a controversial choice among the top brass. He had been the top military representative to SALT. The civilian leadership apparently picked him because he too believed in sufficiency, parity and stalemate. He also favored Soviet-American agreements as a means of regulating the arms race...
Pemex's safety record is spotty. A 25,000-gal. gasoline-storage tank exploded in the central Mexican city of Tula last January. No one was injured then, but one died and 33 were hurt in another explosion in June in the state of Tabasco. A week later, a pipeline leak in Veracruz intoxicated 16. Inhabitants of San Juan Ixhuatepec claim a fire broke out there last June, but neighborhood protests got nowhere. Pemex Spokesman Salvador del Rio denies this, saying that there were no recent fires and that maintenance was "done continually...
...remarks was significant. Immediately after the U.S. election, some Western experts had feared that Brezhnev would be tempted to test the new President by increasing East-West tensions (TIME, Nov. 29). Later Brezhnev sent word through former Treasury Secretary William Simon that this was not the case. The Tula speech and a surprisingly effusive orchestration of pro-Carter sentiment in the Soviet press have appeared to underscore Brezhnev's new assurances. This enthusiasm will probably be tempered by the Kremlin's angry response to the Carter Administration's statements on Soviet violations of human rights...