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...same. He had been persuaded, primarily by his military advisers, that in the absence of the SALT limits, Moscow could proliferate its warheads much more quickly than the U.S. could take either offensive or defensive countermeasures. In an interview with TIME last month, Brezhnev's chief spokesman Leonid Zamyatin for the first time made a similar pledge of restraint on behalf of the Kremlin leadership...
...START, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, as a somewhat artificial way to distinguish his Administration's goals from those of its predecessor. The Soviets profess to share the desire for reductions; they have even added the word to the Russian designation of the talks ("Our first concession," says Zamyatin with a wry smile). But they object strenuously to the sorts of reductions that the U.S. wants...
...assess the current state of Soviet-American affairs, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had a two-hour interview in Moscow last week with Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and Brezhnev's principal spokesman. Zamyatin harshly and predictably attacked U.S. policy in the Middle East, criticized Reagan's position on strategic arms negotiations and decried the use offeree - as if the Soviets did not use it when it suited them. But in addition to the familiar Soviet positions, Zamyatin also sent a number of potentially hopeful signals. He indicated that...
When will the Soviet leaders address the issue of nuclear war winnability and survivability? Party Central Committee Member Leonid Zamyatin equivocates: nowhere does he deny that Soviet military writers promote and affirm in their books and articles the idea of the Soviets' winning and surviving a nuclear war. Albert L. Weeks, Political Science Editor Military Science and Technology New York City
During the furor over President Reagan's remarks, Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and an adviser to President and Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, met in Moscow with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof and TIME editors. At one point he speciously compared the presence of 85,000 Soviet occupation forces in Afghanistan with the approximately 400 American military advisers in Egypt. But he mainly talked about the threat of nuclear war, angrily denying the validity of Reagan's comment that the Soviets believe a nuclear war would be "winnable. "Excerpts...