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Moscow was quick to deny any such ambitions. Stories of Soviet intervention in Yugoslavia, complained TASS last week, were "crude and provocative." But with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan fresh in everybody's mind, the disclaimers initially rang a bit hollow. Mysterious troop movements in Eastern Europe gave rise to rumors that the Soviets were mobilizing in preparation for Tito's death. The U.S.S.R. has 31 divisions in Eastern Europe: four are stationed in Hungary, with which Yugoslavia shares a common border. At week's end, however, Washington officials were satisfied that the troop movements involved routine...
...world back into an earlier and more dangerous era. Soviet divisions had swarmed across the border of a neighboring country and turned it into a new satellite. Moscow and Washington were exchanging very angry words. Jimmy Carter accused Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev of lying, and the Soviets' TASS press agency shot back that Carter's statements were "bellicose and wicked." For Carter, the rapid series of events in Afghanistan seemed to provide a remarkable kind of revelation. Said he, sounding strikingly naive in an ABC television interview: "My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically...
...addition, the official Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday in a dispatch from Kabul that an American Roman Catholic mission in the capital had been functioning as an "underground center" for recruiting "counter-revolutionary agents" to circulate "subversive literature. "Tass said the mission was part of the American cultural center run by the U.S. Embassy...
...leap of the imagination can substantiate charges by Tass, the Soviet press agency, that the presence of 50,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan is a response to American "cold war" policies. Whether Soviet leaders decided to move in on Afghanistan because they feared the Moslem rebellion there would spread to the large Moslem minority in the Soviet Union, or whether the intervention is the first step in Soviet expansionary designs on the Middle East, the act shows the bankruptcy of Soviet claims to be the Third World's benefactor...
...Soviet Union was swift to react angrily against NATO's missile decision. Calling it the product of "crude pressure" by the U.S. against its allies, TASS declared that the plan was "dangerous to the cause of peace and to international detente." NATO planners paid little attention, convinced as they are that the present strategic balance in Europe favors the Warsaw Pact to a greater extent than ever before. They believe the new Western missiles will significantly strengthen the alliance and will, at the least, give it an important new bargaining chip in any fu ture arms negotiations with...