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...Georgi Arbatov is a maneuverer. In a sense such a observation seems self-evident; anyone who, like Arbatov, has reached the height of power in the Soviet Union must have great political acumen and a highly developed some of cunning. A brief look at Arbatov's career only serves to reinforce this impression, for our man clearly knew how to pick--and stick with--the right people. In the early 1960s, for example, Arbatov was a confident of the late Soviet leader Leonid I Brezhnev. And all the way buck in 1964, he became an advisor to Yuni V. Andropov...
Subilety and craftiness prevail throughout most of Arbatov's discussion of U.S. Soviet relations in The Soviet Viewpoint. Using the question answer format to its greatest advantage....Viewpoint provides an ideal forum for Arbatov to demonstrate--often convincingly--that the recent cooling off in relations between the superpowers is largely the fault of the United States...
...questions are posed by Dutch journalist and author William Oltmans, Clearly sympathetic to much of what Arbatov has to say. Oltmans rarely presses his interjector: indeed, some of his queries seem designed to dicit a response uncomplimentary to the United States. Still, this bits does little to diminish the importance of the book. Arbatov's statements are not extemparacoure the U.S. specialist was given written questions to which he formulated answers over several months. It would be a good bet to assume that Arbatov consulted with his friends on the Central Committee and that his opinions reflect those...
...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...
...tough talk, the Soviets were careful to hold out a tattered olive branch. Ogarkov's public comments stopped well short of more serious threats that Soviet officials have made previously through diplomatic channels. Arbatov also noted that any change in Washington's attitude "will, of course, be noticed in Moscow." TIME has learned that President Reagan recently invited Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a private chat and assured the veteran diplomat that he is personally committed to peace. It was a tiny step in easing tensions...