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...know for sure why the Korean airliner strayed off course, nor whether the Soviets attempted through non-lethal means to make the jet land or change course. But we do know--or have been violently reminded--how paranoid the Soviets are about defense. Because of its callous act, the USSR risks the wrath of the rest of the world and, more importantly, significant setbacks in its geopolitical strategy. Such a nation must be either so brazen that a policy of detente is hopeless (and fallout shelters a national priority) or very afraid of its adversary's military potential. Most conservatives...
...House of Representatives in April by Rep Gerald Solomon (R.N.Y), calls for the President and Congress to make a public condemnation of the Soviet Government's actions in 1932-33 and its continued enslavement of the Ukrainian nation as well as other non- Russian nations" within the USSR. This House members, including Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.). are currently co-operating the bill, which is in subcommittee...
...much as the containment theory of the 1950s. Then, as now, the Soviets had to be stopped in every area they were perceived to be on the move. And the problem now, as then, is one of ridiculously polarized perception. For as the case of Central America shows, the USSR is simply not the root of all the world's problems. The USSR seems to act more as a typical superpower best on securing its borders and establishing allies than as a fanatical breeder of revolution. This reality must be taken into account by American foreign policy makers...
...Helsinki accords of 1975, long sought by the USSR, raised international legal barriers to the reunification of Germany and to the restoration of the former German territories ceded to Czechoslovakia. Poland and the USSR. The Soviet search for an enduring solution to the Germany question is also evident in the Soviet proposals to the Vienna talks on the reduction of conventional forces in Central Europe Every Soviet proposal at the Vienna talks from the opening of the negotiations in 1973 to the Warsaw Pact proposal of February, 1983 has sought to establish a 1:1 ratio between Soviet and West...
...Soviets have sought to limit American INF deployments in Europe, they have never proposed reductions of British and French INF: 263 delivery vehicles consisting of 64 British missiles, 55 British bombers, 98 French missiles and 46 French bombers. Instead, the Soviets have publicly insisted since November. 1981 that the USSR be permitted to exclude from any Soviet-American INF agreement a Soviet INF arsenal equal to the combined total of British and French nuclear delivery vehicles...