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Overhanging all the ferment is the shadow of the Soviet Union, which has done little to promote the troubles but tries to capitalize on any chance to lessen U.S. influence. Said Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes: "I don't believe the Soviet Union has any grand design in this arc of instability, any master plan, any timetable. All those things belong to the imagination of some editorial writers and intelligence analysts." But Simes thinks that the Soviets are so eager to damage the U.S. that they will even act against some of their own national interests...
...trip to Peking in 1972 that normal U.S.China ties were inevitable, the Soviets were jolted by the abrupt way Carter made the move and the sudden prospect of U.S. arms sales to Peking. Diplomatic surprise is one thing that the Kremlin's aging leadership abhors. Explains Gyula Jozsa, a Kremlinologist at Cologne's Institute of Eastern Studies: "The Soviets can see the logic of the need for the U.S. to recognize Peking. But what worries them is: How far and how quickly will subsequent relations develop between Washington and Peking?" An analyst at the Rand Corp. points out that...
Washington's master Kremlinologist looks back
...senior staff member of the National Security Council, as the only familiar face on the other side of the negotiating table. Brezhnev and his comrades had been dealing with Hyland since 1969, and Hyland had been scrutinizing the Soviet leadership for 15 years before that. His career as a Kremlinologist has spanned six administrations and carried him to the upper echelons of the CIA, the State Department and the NSC. This month Hyland, 48, retired. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden reports on one of the men who know the Russians best...
...coming to an agreement with an inveterate trickster like Mr. Nixon, were unable to do the same with an honest man." Some analysts even believe that by introducing the human rights issue early on, Carter successfully "tested" the Soviets before they had a chance to test him. As Kremlinologist Carl Linden of George Washington University sees it, Carter's opening sally threw the Russians off balance-but so what? "After all," he observes, "they've always felt entirely free about attacking the foundations of Western democracy, so Carter's opening moves have really been a matter...