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...sour grapes for the Soviets," a cheerful State Department official had said. But Andropov's Thanksgiving Day statement came as a disappointment. Insisting, as the Soviet Union has done at every stage of its SS-20 buildup, that a "rough parity continues to exist in Europe" between NATO and Warsaw Pact medium-range missiles, Andropov warned that the U.S. and its allies must bear the consequences of their "myopic" policy. He labeled further participation in the Geneva talks "impossible" and then spelled out planned Soviet military countermeasures...
Nitze even had a military justification for giving up the Pershing II. It involved deploying instead a shorter-range version of the missile called the Pershing IB. That weapon would have had the accuracy, mobility and other high-tech advantages of the Pershing II and could hit Warsaw Pact airfields, rail transshipment points and command centers. But because of its shorter range it would not be limited by the agreement...
...machine sputtered and coughed so loudly. It began when Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin strongly hinted three weeks ago that the Soviets would pull out of the Geneva talks on medium-range missiles if NATO went ahead with deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe. Two days later, Warsaw Pact foreign ministers meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, ambiguously announced that they favored continuation of the negotiations, but only if NATO delayed deployment. Then Zamyatin took another tack, telling the West German magazine Stern that it would be the fault of the U.S. if the negotiations were suspended, but that...
...only son of Ukrainian emigres, Sevcenko was born just outside Warsaw in 1922. After his graduation from a lyceum in 1939, the 17-year-old Sevcenko seized on a chance to leave that beleagured city and his job of selling books on the street...
...papers consisting of the title pages, tables of contents and first chapters of documents he had copied, as a kind of sample of what he had to sell. After ascertaining that the KGB would pay handsomely for the actual documents, the Pole invited Harper to the meeting in Warsaw in June...