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...merely confirmed the existing strategic balance. The U.S. gave up nothing in SALT I that it had not already relinquished in reduced budgets for missiles. "While the U.S. had its eyes fixed on Viet Nam, the Soviet Union had been concentrating on vastly increasing its strategic armament." says Kremlinologist Richard Lowenthal. "The Soviets entered the SALT negotiations hi a much stronger position than they had been in [in the early '60s], so that any gains they made were done through increased power and not through negotiations...
...months after his death, additional tapes came into the hands of Time Inc. Like the tapes that were the basis for Khrushchev Remembers, these were also authenticated by voice-print analysis; transcripts of the recordings were again translated and edited by Correspondent Talbott. British Kremlinologist and Khrushchev Biographer Edward Crankshaw, who introduced and annotated the first volume of his memoirs, has provided a preface for the sequel. He writes: "The chief value of the memoirs (and they have, it seems to me, a very great historical value) lies not in the facts they offer but in the state of mind...
From the careful questions raised by Soviet diplomats at receptions, it is clear that the Russians are worried about Watergate. That Brezhnev stuck to the original schedule for the summit, however, suggests that he believes Nixon will somehow ride out his seventh and most serious crisis. Quipped a British Kremlinologist last week: "Brezhnev really has quite an investment in Nixon's survival." The Russians have in fact developed an agreeable working relationship with the President and, of course, Henry Kissinger. It is doubtful if they could envision more complementary partners...
Many State Department professionals, however, are hoping against hope that the new ambassador will be one of their own. If Nixon does decide on a Soviet expert, there is a consensus among Foreign Service officers that it will be Malcolm Toon, a veteran Kremlinologist who has served two previous tours of duty in Moscow, and is currently Ambassador to Yugoslavia...
...Polyansky accomplishes anything," says a top U.S. State Department expert, "it will have taken a miracle." English Kremlinologist Robert Conquest thinks that Polyansky, a former protege of Khrushchev's, has been maneuvered into a position of "succeed or else." Says Conquest: "Since he can't succeed, he will be the next fall...