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Some of the people who understand the politician's need for subtle adjustment are now worried about the instant litany of nos produced by Ronald Reagan's White House on everything from nuclear-arms limitation to the budget. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev did not offer anything new in his proposed missile freeze in Europe, but the quick, harsh U.S. rejection spooked the world. While the clock feet toward serious economic trouble, Reagan still drags his feet on budget compromise. "The worst mistake the President made," one of his Cabinet officers said the other morning, "was not to accept...
...especially since the shelving of the SALT II treaty in 1980 and the failure to resume talks since then?have moved, with mutual belligerence, toward a direct confrontation that could trigger a nuclear war. Those worries were, in a sense, symbolized by a rhetorical exchange between Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev last week that probably did more to augment superpower tensions than to ease them. Speaking to the 17th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions, the medal-bedecked Soviet leader announced that Moscow was immediately suspending its deployment of new SS-20 nuclear missiles west of the Urals and targeted...
...that everyone agrees. Neither General David Jones, nor Thomas K. Jones, nor Richard Pipes nor Leonid Brezhnev is recommending, or even secretly hoping, that their guesses and arguments be proved by experience. Even those in the Administration who sincerely believe that the U.S., if it had to, could fight and win a nuclear war agree that the primary goal of U.S. weapons programs and policy should be preventing...
Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev once held each other's hands in the back seat of the Soviet leader's limousine as they pledged their personal commitments to maintain peace. To this day, Ford does not think that Brezhnev, no matter how great the Soviet missile advantage may be, is capable of marching into the Kremlin's command center and launching Armageddon. Ford obviously was not. "You won't do that because you are a human being," he said last week. His former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger finds it "very dubious" that either...
Harvard Russian and Chinese studies experts disagreed yesterday on the significance of and the motives for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhney's overtures Wednesday to Chinese leaders...