Word: sonnenfeldt
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...desire to believe the situation is radically altered," says Midge Decter, executive director of the Committee for the Free World. "So far it's mostly been rhetoric," argues Vladimir Bukovsky, an exiled Russian dissident now living in Britain. "Soviet leaders have not changed their view of the world." Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a policymaker during the period of detente who is now at the Brookings Institution, says that Moscow's new thinking is merely "old- fashioned thinking with a jazzed up vocabulary. It's old poison in new bottles...
Secretary of State George Shultz told a Senate subcommittee last week that a "pure-and-simple get-acquainted session is not the way to go." But the Secretary declined to name specific issues that might be on the agenda for a Reagan-Gorbachev conference. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former National Security Council member, speculated that a summit might result in "a broad declaration of principles" that could advance the current arms negotiations in Geneva. In 1972, Nixon and Brezhnev signed such an agreement calling for the peaceful coexistence of the superpowers. Experts doubt that the initial summit would deal with such...
...confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective agreement. Adds Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Soviet expert at Washington's Brookings Institution: "How could it be otherwise when it is an autocratic, dictatorial, almost monarchical system? The only difference is there is no biological heir...
...that the Kremlin's many frustrations will make either its present or its future leaders any easier for the U.S. to deal with. The effect could be exactly the opposite. In any case, the U.S. has little leverage that it can exert. Speaking of the Soviet leadership jockeying, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Kremlinologist at Washington's Brookings Institution, says bluntly, "There is nothing the U.S. can do about this...
...already provides more than half the emergency aid needed to feed Africa's hungry millions, a trend that has not gone unnoticed. For example, Mozambique, still officially a Marxist nation and once heavily dependent on Soviet aid, "has slid away from the Soviets," in the words of Sonnenfeldt, and become friendlier...