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...Solidarity, the people of Afghanistan, or the unwitting agents of U.S. "special services" such as those aboard KAL, flight 007. The question is more Soviet priorities and capabilities. The Soviet Union suffers low internal morale and economic stagnation. The technology gap widens every year. Japan has passed the USSR as the world's second industrial producer. Military clout and "defense of the gains of socialism" are all the Party can brag about. Military might surrounding poverty, with patriotism upholding a ramshackle empire (even if the radars don't work) is a mixture as Russian as black bread. So is astute...
...second. Given this fact, you might say that neither group deserves high marks for consistency. Indeed, these same conservatives dismiss increased contact with the Soviet Union as a viable foreign policy tool, and these same liberals push detente as a solution to easing East-West tension and making the USSR a nicer place...
Similar arguments have appeared in the Soviet press and in academic publications with increasing regularity in recent years, a direct result of the rising fortunes of one man. E.M. Primakov, director since 1973 of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Primakov's reinterpretation of the social role of Islam is predicated on an understanding of Islam as a complex social force, seeing religion as but one variable in the intricate belief system by which individuals respond to their social and political environment. It is rumored that Primakov developed this thesis of a staff...
...success of such a doctrine relies ultimately though on Muslims outside the Soviet Union Primakov's notion of progressive Islam permits the Soviets to justify support of religious revolutionaries, hitherto unrecognized and unrecognizable by the USSR. This view of Islams, though can not ensure that Muslim activists will trust the Soviets, nor that they will turn to the USSR for aid. Muslim non-Marxists have long been suspicious of the Soviets, so Moscow must create are receptive Muslim audience abroad before progressive Islam may provide an effective strategy for Soviet infiltration of the Middle East Presumably, then, the next task...
...done very ably by Ambassador Kvong Won Kim a Harvard Ph D) to the Security Council it is not a member of the UN and could not cast a vote or lead the darling and negotiation of a UN action. Because it does not have diplomatic relations with the USSR despite continued efforts. Korea had to rely upon Washington to transmit its demands to the Soviets and upon Japan to make arrangements for the return of debris and remains recovered by the Russians. Korea has no complaints about the manner in which the US and Japan have represented its interests...