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...will have to begin right away, starting not just from Square 1, but from farther back than that. Relations with Moscow are poisonous; the Soviets have no desire to help Reagan get re-elected by allowing him to stage a summit with Yuri Andropov. Besides, even with an emergency infusion of high-level political will from both sides, the task of the negotiators in Geneva in reaching even limited compromises would be daunting...
...Europeans asked us in 1979 to counter the growing threat of the Soviet SS-20 missile. At the time there were only 120 of them a number which Leonid Brezhnev called sufficient for nuclear parity in Europe. Today there are 351 SS-20's west of the Urals, and Yuri Andropov (you remember, the one who took out a contract on the Pope) claims that this is equality, although there have no new Western missiles installed since 1979. Behind this distorted Soviet view lies the desire to maintain the strategic superiority built up since the late 1970s, and to thereby...
After several months of relative inactivity following the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the Moscow rumor mill last week was once again grinding away. The first major items of interest concerned the state of health and whereabouts of Communist Party Leader Yuri Andropov, 68. Then, as if tales of an Andropov illness were not intriguing enough, the official Soviet news agency TASS set off a new round of speculation with a terse two-line communique announcing the promotion of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, to the post of First Deputy Premier...
Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies and a man believed to be close to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, followed Ogarkov's lead with an authoritative commentary published the same day in Pravda. He offered an equally chilling assessment of how Moscow would respond to the deployment of new American missiles in Europe. To preserve nuclear "equality," Arbatov said, the Soviets "would have not only to add to our missiles in Western Europe but also to deploy them near American borders." The meaning of the final phrase was left deliberately vague, but Western arms analysts...
...service to Marx. Speaking under an enormous portrait of the man, Chinese Party Secretary Hu Yaobang praised Marx as "the most outstanding revolutionary and scientist in human history," then devoted the rest of his 90-minute address to promoting Peking's pragmatic approach to reform. Soviet Party Chief Yuri Andropov contributed an anniversary article to the journal Kommunist last month, lauding Marx as "a great practical revolutionary." His own views on the need for workers to be thrifty and responsible had a curiously capitalist ring. Maverick Rumania marked the occasion by announcing a new wage system pegging salaries...