SOVIET SAYS CARTER WILL DROP DETENTE FOR MILITARY MIGHT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 20, 1980
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ANTI_CL?f iPtY R.0 THE NEW YORK TIMES
CI PA . /Y! V 20 January 1980
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By ANTHONY AUST IN
Speclattome New York Times
MOSCOW. Jan. 19 - Pravda, the
Soviet Communist Party paper, warned
today that what it termed the new "Car-
ter doctrine" being planned in Washing-
ton confronted the world with the pros-
pect of a "complex period" in interna-
tional relations.
The article was presented as an. ad.
vance critique of the speech to be given
.by President Carter on Wednesday,
when, the paper said, he was expected to
proclaim "his own doctrine" for Ameri-
can foreign policy for the 1980's.
The whole trend of recent years,
Pravda said, makes it clear that it is
going to be a doctrine of military power to
block social changes around the world
that hamper the unrestricted access of
"American 'monopolies" to oil and other
raw materials. -
The paper said that the evident policy
switch by Washington from seeking the
limitation of arms to a new round in the
military race was pushing the world to-
ward a "slippery and dangerous path."
.Moreover, the paper added, "a danger-
ous situation has arisen as a result of the
machinations of aggressive imperialist
forces and their accomplices" in South-
west Asia and other areas..
In an"article over the signature of A.
Petrov, which is a pseudonym used for
particularly authoritative statements of
the Soviet position on foreign affairs,
Pravda said:
"United States policy is in a feverish
state. American emissaries are dashing
about the world, twisting arms to make
their allies join in an appearance of a
united anti-Soviet front." .
However, the paper said. "the United
States already finds itself in the unenvi-
able position of a state that is trying to
stamp out the fruit of detente against the
wishes of the world's peoples."
says 'Blackmail, Will Fait.
Implying that the United States might
.find it difficult to bend its allies to its will,
the article concluded by citing President
Leonid I. Brezhnev's statement in an in-
terview-with Pravda a week ago. The
-Soviet leader said then that detente, with
its "deep roots," had "every chance of re-
maining the leading tendency in relations"
among governments."
In any event, Pravda said, the Ameri-
can leaders' campaign of , pressure
against Moscow was bound to fail. "Ex-
perience should have taught them that it
is useless to try to talk with the Soviet
Union in the language of force, or to r,--
sort to blackmail, including economic
blackmail, against our country," Pravda
declared. "No one has ever succeeded in
this."
According to the Pravda analysis, the
so-called Carter doctrine suffered a
major setback in Afghanistan even while
the policy was being formed. Pravda said
that soon after the Afghan Communist
Party seized power in April 1973 the
Americans sought to use "interventionist
forces" to "out an end to the revolution-
ary changes" and "throw the country
back into the dark middle ages." ,
This explained, the paper said,, the
"noise and ferocity" in the United States
when the arrival of Soviet troops frus-
trated Washington's plan to overthrow
the Kabul Government and turn Afghani-
stan into an American base, with
"American military installations turned
toward the Soviet Union, in place of those
lost in Iran."
Pravda charged that "tens of thou-
sands" of mercenaries armed with
American and Chinese weapons were still
being trained and sent into Afghanistan
by instructors from Washingon and Pe-
king, with the direct involvement of the
Central IntelIi,gence Agency and the State
Department.
Amin Again Linked to C.I.A. - 1
The paper repeated an allegation that
President Hafizullah Amin, who was
killed at the time of the Dec. ' coup in?
Kabul, was a C.I.A. agent.
"The President in his speeches pre-)
tends not to know about any external ag-`
gression." Pravda said. "He would
prefer aggression, when carried out by
mercenaries, to be called somethings
else." -
But the world's peoples, the parer said,
'have not forgotten that "mercenaries,
hired by the imperialist circles of the:
United States strangled the freedom ofd
Guatemela," were thrown against "free-,
dom-loving Cuba," crushed "democracy!
in Chile." tried to suppress the r evolution I
in Vietnam before direct American inter-
vention and were "sent against the peo-
;
plesof nations in Africa."
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