"SOVIET PROPAGANDA ALERT" NO. 14

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United Mates Office of the Director
Information
Agency
Washington, D.C. 20547 Executive go ry
June 14, 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR:
The Honorable
William J. Casey
Director
Central Intellience,Agency
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Charles Z. W c~
Director
"Soviet Propaganda Alert" No.
14
Attached is the fourteenth issue of the "Soviet Propaganda
Alert" produced by our office of Research.
In March and April the Soviets:
o Accused the U.S. of continuing to obstruct serious nego-
tiations at the INF talks in Geneva. President Reagan's
proposal for an "interim agreement" was denounced as
completely unacceptable -- a dishonest propaganda ploy.
o Charged that the U.S. engages in chemical warfare, and
that the President's plan to develop a ballistic missile
defense system in space is an attempt to gain a first-
strike capability.
o Asserted that the USSR adheres to high moral standards,
unlike hypocritical and sanctimonious U.S. leaders.
o Alleged that an intensive propaganda campaign conducted
by the U.S. and NATO helped achieve a conservative vic-
tory in the West German elections.
o Stressed that the peace movement continues to gain
strength undaunted by intimidation and undeceived by
propaganda on the part of the U.S. Administration.
o Pointed to examples of U.S. aggression worldwide,
including CIA support for anti-Sandinista guerrillas in
Nicaragua, American-Israeli plans to attack Syria, and
subversive activities in Poland, Afghanistan, India, and
Africa.
o Maintained that despite Washington's disruptive efforts,
the Nonaligned Movement remains strong, anti-imperialist,
and sympathetic to Moscow.
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No. 14
Soviet Propaganda Alert
May 27,1983
SUMMARY
(Further details of the items on this sheet
can be found on the referenced pages)
Major Soviet propaganda themes related to the U.S. in
March and April stressed:
U.S. Thwarts Arms Control Talks. Striving for mili-
tary superiority and a first-strike capability, the
U.S. continues to obstruct serious discussion on arms
control. President Reagan's proposal for an "interim
agreement" was denounced as completely unacceptable,
a dishonest propaganda ploy.
Moral Basis of Soviet Policy. The USSR adheres to
high moral standards, unlike hypocritical and sancti-
monious U.S. leaders. Religious figures were enlisted
in the campaign to get this message across.
Aggressive Intent of U.S. Policy. Soviet media
played up Western press reports that allegedly expose
U.S. aggressiveness, asserted that the U.S. engages
in chemical warfare, and denounced Reagan's plan to
deploy a ballistic missile defense system in space as
a further attempt to buttress offensive capabilities.
Growing Opposition to U.S. "Militarism". The peace
movement continues to gain strength, undaunted by
intimidation and undeceived by propaganda on the part
of the U.S. Administration.
Nonaligned Movement Not Diverted by U.S. Despite
Washington's disruptive efforts, the movement remains
strong and sympathetic to Moscow.
Regional Issues. In West Germany, an intensive propa-
ganda campaign conducted by the U.S. and NATO helped
achieve a conservative victory in the elections.
Soviet propaganda also alleged U.S. "aggression"
throughout the world--CIA support for anti-Sandinista
guerrillas in Nicaragua; American complicity with
Israel; and subversive activities in Poland, Afghan-
istan, India, and Africa.
See p. 1
See p. 3
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U.S. THWARTS ARMS CONTROL TALKS
The Soviet Union continued its intensive propaganda on arms
control and disarmament issues in March and April. As in
preceding months, the Soviet media sought to:
o Portray the U.S. as bent on achieving military
superiority and world hegemony.
o Depict the USSR as the foremost champion of peace, a
committed proponent of universal disarmament.
o Demonstrate the USSR's moral superiority to the U.S.
o Publicize the deep and growing popular opposition to
American "militarism" in the U.S., Western Europe, and
the Third World.
The propaganda campaign focused on the INF negotiations;
relatively little attention was given to the START and MBFR
talks. Particularly noteworthy were CPSU.General Secretary
Iurii Andropbv's rejoinder to President Reagan's speech of
March 23 and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's news confer-
ence following the President's March 30 speech.
In answering a correspondent's questions (Pravda, March
27), Andropov stated that "the whole message of the [March
23 Presidential] speech is that America should arm itself
and become the world's dominating military power." While
claiming that the U.S. has strengthened its own strategic
forces, Andropov accused the President of making "impudent
distortions" of Soviet policy. In unusually sharp lan-
guage, he said that Reagan "tells a deliberate untruth" ("a
deliberate lie," according to TASS's more forceful English
translation) by asserting that the USSR had not observed
its own moratorium on the deployment of medium-range
missiles in Europe. Reagan's announcement that the U.S.
would develop defensive antiballistic missile weapons in
space was denounced as an attempt to achieve a first-strike
capability and "disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the
U.S. nuclear threat." "The incumbent U.S. Administration
continues to tread an extremely perilous path," Andropov
warned. "All attempts at achieving military superiority
over the USSR are futile.... Engaging in this is not just
irresponsible, it is insane."
According to Georgii Arbatov, the USSR's foremost American
specialist, if anyone had any doubts about U.S. intentions,
they were dispelled by Kenneth Adelman, Reagan's appointee
to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Pravda,
March 17). Adelman is quoted by Arbatov as having declared
frankly: "Arms limitations talks are a subterfuge to which
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we were simply forced to resort in order to reassure the
U.S. people and the European allies." The Administration's
successful effort to gain his confirmation was seen as but
another sign of its "striking cynicism." On April 19, a
Pravda commentator singled out Adelman's "lack of compe-
tence in arms limitation matters," "primitive anticommu-
nism," and putative inclination to torpedo any possible
accord as "qualities especially valued by the present
Washington leadership."
INF Negotiations
Lack of progress in the INF talks at Geneva was blamed on
American intransigence and unwillingness to consider equi-
table Soviet proposals. The new U.S. proposal for an "in-
terim" agreement was discounted in advance as a propaganda
ploy. As TASS analyst Vladimir Bogarchev commented on
February 25, a month before the new proposal was presented,
"In the final analysis, all these 'creeping,' interim, and
tentative U.S. variants boil down to the same old goal: to
get the new U.S. nuclear missiles into Western Europe by
hook or by crook."
On April 2, a day and a half after President Reagan an-
nounced the new U.S. proposal for the INF talks, Foreign
Minister Gromyko provided an authoritative response. The
news conference, his first since 1979, came nine days after
he was appointed First Deputy Premier. Gromyko called the
proposal "not serious," "unbalanced," "unconstructive," and
"completely unacceptable." "It is not designed to open
opportunities for an agreement with the Soviet Union," he
said. "This is why we call on Washington to adopt a more
objective approach to this question, to renounce lopsided-
ness, to take into account all factors including the secur-
ity interests of the Soviet Union." According to Gromyko,
Reagan's plan would give NATO a 2.5-to-1 superiority over
the Warsaw Pact in the number of warheads. He further
alleged that Western governments "do not tell the truth to
the people" and that Western media ignore Soviet proposals.
The U.S. was put on notice that the USSR would respond to
any new deployment of. intermediate-range missiles. Writing
in the February issue of the party journal Kommunist, the
commander-in-chief of the Soviet strategic nuclear forces,
Gen. Vladimir Tolubko, recalled Andropov's statement six
weeks earlier that if the U.S. installs new missiles in
Western Europe, the USSR will respond "in an adequate man-
ner." In an interview published in the Italian newspaper
La Repubblica (March 9), Vadim Zagladin, first deputy chief
of the CPSU Central Committee's International Department,
stated bluntly that an intermediate solution cannot be
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valid. In the event of a deployment, he warned, "We will
have to deploy missiles equivalent to the Pershing IIs,
with an equally rapid flight time, in the vicinity of the
United States." Similar threats greeted Administration
plans to deploy 100 MX missiles in the U.S.
At a Moscow ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of
Marx's death, Politburo member Boris Ponomarev reaffirmed
the morality of Marxism. Through dark innuendo, he con-
trasted it to the ignorance, hypocrisy, and evil-doing of
the U.S. Administration:
Only hatred of socialism and, of course, glaring ig-
norance can explain the statements that the founders
of Marxism-Leninism and. its supporters "reject moral-
ity" since they approach it from class positions. No,
the class position that expresses the interests of
working people...is precisely what enables communists
to consistently defend general human moral values.
And those people who...try to hide the arms race
policy behind God's name, who embrace the murderers of
civilians at Sabra and Shatila, grant amnesties to the
butchers of Song My, give shelter and protection to
Nazi criminals, encourage and arm terrorist and racist
regimes in Central America and southern Africa, have
inspired aggression against revolutionary Nicaragua
and plan "victory" in nuclear war...have no right to
teach morality to communists. (Pravda, March 31)
Meanwhile, Soviet commentators moved on other fronts to
stress the moral rectitude of Soviet policy. At the invi-
tation of the Russian Orthodox Church, a conference of
religious leaders from around the world was held in Moscow,
March 7-9. The conference, which endorsed the nuclear
freeze, provided a convenient propaganda forum at a time
when the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the
freeze resolution and when antinuclear groups were gearing
up for Easter demonstrations in Western Europe.
Soviet spokesmen also denounced the U.S. President's state-
ment, made to the National Association of Evangelicals in
Orlando, Florida, on March 8, that the Soviet Union is an
"evil empire." When questioned at the April 2 news confer-
ence, Gromyko said such "insulting" remarks "do not lend
authority to American foreign policy" and went on to chat=
lenge American moral standards. As summarized in a broad-
cast to North America on April 4:
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[Gromyko] said high moral values could not be defended
by a nation preparing for a nuclear war which would
incinerate many hundreds of millions of human beings.
This country is the United States of America. Its
government, which is preparing a nuclear war with all
the dire effects for civilization, has no right to
speak of defending high moral values with its foreign
policy.
A still more caustic statement--the open letter to Presi-
dent Reagan from Pimen, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox
Church--wedded an appeal to Christian values with complete
support for Soviet policy. Printed as a paid political ad-
vertisement in the New York Times (April 3) and dissemi-
nated by TASS, the letter stated::
It is with bitterness and grief in my heart that I
read your belligerent calls which sow the seeds of
hatred and hostility against my motherland and threat-
en peace all over the world. These calls are the more
so sinful as they are wrapped in the attire of Chris-
tian morals....
The position of many believers in the U.S.A. with re-
gard to problems of war and peace gives us encouraging
support in our efforts.... It is in this that they and
we alike see the Providential Act of God. There is
not a single person in our country benefiting from the
production of lethal weapons, serving Mammon. There
is no one who wants to unleash war for the sake of the
Golden Calf (3 Kings 28,32)
We, Soviet citizens and patriots, want to live in
peace and friendship with all peoples and states. And
you, Mr. President, take a great sin upon your soul
when you speak about a horrible Soviet threat. There
has been no such threat.
THE AGGRESSIVE INTENT OF U.S. POLICY
Soviet media distorted Western press accounts in an attempt
to portray U.S. policy as starkly aggressive. The military
newspaper Krasnaia zvezda (March 6) cited Der Spiegel on
"the criminal plans of the U.S. Administration," "the un-
restrained desire of the White House and the Pentagon to
unleash nuclear war." Current U.S. policy was linked with
former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who
allegedly talked of how to "annihilate the Russians in the
Soviet Union":
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"The Russians dominate in the Soviet Union, the Rus-
sians are enemies. If we wish to avert war, we must
intimidate the Russians. If the system of deterrence
does not work, we must kill the Russians above all."
In the words of this unbridled anticommunist, "we must
kill the Russians precisely because they are Russians."
(The words from Der Spiegel attributed to Brzezinski are,
in fact, a paraphrase from an article by Thomas Powers in
the November 1982 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Quoted
out of context, with significant omissions, they make
Brzezinski appear both bloodthirsty and racist.)
In an article entitled "The President's April Fool Jokes"
(Literaturnaia gazeta, April 6), Vitalii Kobysh, chief of
the U.S. sector of the Central Committee's International
Information Department, asserted that Reagan has "consi-
dered it his sacred duty" to do everything possible to ham-
per or wreck the arms reductions talks. The President's
plan, presented in the "guise" of ABM defense, is nothing
but "a vast new, purely aggressive program of military pre-
parations"--"further evidence that the present U.S. Govern-
ment is not simply preparing for nuclear war, but has set a
course toward unleashing it." This charge, combined with
Kobysh's hyperbolic tone, is clearly designed to discredit
the U.S. and create apprehension.
In the same vein, Soviet media continued to accuse the U.S.
of involvement in chemical and biological warfare. Accor-
ding to TASS International Service (April 12, in Russian),
"the United states is not only preparing chemical weapons,"
but is "using and 'testing' them in various regions of the
world."
After Indochina, these weapons were applied in Afghan-
istan.... American-produced chemical bombs are aimed
at the patriots and defenseless population in El
Salvador by the punitive troops of the dictatorial
junta.... American chemical weapons are used in
Nicaragua. In fighting with the Somozist bands,
fighters in the Sandinista People's Army have seized
chemical grenades with nerve-paralyzing gas, and gas
masks labelled "made in the United States." Secret
plans have been worked out in Washington to use
chemical weapons against Cuba and other countries.
GROWING OPPOSITION TO U.S. MILITARISM
Soviet propaganda painted a picture of a growing ground-
swell of popular opposition to U.S. "militarism." The
peace movement, in the Soviet view, is undaunted by U.S.
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intimidation and undeceived by its propaganda. To convey a
sense of widespread peace sentiment in the U.S., Soviet
media continued to publish letters to Andropov, ostensibly
from private American citizens (including the much-bally-
hooed one from fifth-grader Samantha Smith), while publi-
cizing criticism voiced by U.S. leaders and journalists.
In a televised speech carried by Moscow Domestic Service on
April 16, Georgii Zhukov, chairman of the Soviet Committee
for the Defense of Peace, thundered:
Let U.S. Secretary of Defense Weinberger... continue to
assert that the movement is organized by certain
clever Soviet agents or, as he puts it, front organi-
zations. He recently reiterated this delirious decla-
ration in his foreword to the propagandistic Pentagon
brochure entitled Soviet Military Power. Let U.S.
President Reagan also continue to declare that suppos-
edly the struggle for peace is prohibited in the Sov-
iet Union and other socialist countries, that suppos-
edly we throw our fighters for peace into jails. Let
them!
These leaders thereby only demonstrate the amazing
fallacy and stupidity of their primitive and ridi-
culous propaganda.
In its prominent coverage of the meeting of nonaligned
countries held in New Delhi, March 7-12, the Soviet media:
o Portrayed the USSR and socialist states as the true
friends of the nonaligned.
o Maintained that the U.S. and its allies were doing
their utmost to disrupt the movement and sever its
"natural" ties with the socialist states.
o Highlighted speeches by leaders closest to Moscow--
Castro, Arafat, representatives from Afghanistan and
Vietnam.
o Asserted that--despite Washington's efforts to split
the movement--it remains strong and sympathetic to the
USSR.
Overlooking the decided shift in tone from the 1979 meeting
in Havana, Soviet media stressed that the conference "lev-
eled sharp criticism against the aggressive policy of in-
ternational imperialism, above all U.S. imperialism," and
provided "convincing evidence that Washington's dangerous
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policy now encounters resistance from the overwhelming ma-
jority of the people of the world" (Sel'skaia zhizn', March
12). Ridiculing the U.S. State Department's assertion that
the nonaligned movement's final declaration was "unbalanced
and argumentative," Izvestiia correspondent Melor Sturua
asked (March 18), "How can anyone take a 'balanced' atti-
tude toward the supporters and opponents of imperialism,
colonialism, neocolonialism, apartheid and racism? How can
anyone take a 'balanced' attitude toward the supporters and
opponents of nuclear war, the arms race, the freezing of
all forms of aggression, and peaceful coexistence?"
West German Election Results
Rejecting charges that the USSR had interfered in the elec-
tions, Soviet spokesmen asserted that the U.S. and its NATO
partners had conducted an intensive propaganda campaign.
Izvestiia correspondents claimed on March 9:
The Washington Administration made no attempt to dis-
guise its attempts to influence their outcome to suit
itself, resorting to such tried and tested methods as
crude pressure and political blackmail.... The bour-
geois mass information organs, clearly directed from a
single center, unleashed an unprecedented campaign of
voter intimidation using the 'Soviet threat' myth....
The conservative victory was attributed to CDU success in
blaming the SPD for Germany's economic problems, the ruling
circles' heavy funding of the CDU campaign, and the massive
U.S.-NATO propaganda effort. The SPD's "flabby" position
on INF deployment was also cited as a factor. According to
Soviet commentators, the elections were in no sense an en-
dorsement of INF deployment; rather, the conservatives
managed to win despite massive anti-deployment sentiment.
Central America and the Caribbean
While focusing on alleged U.S. aggression, Soviet propagan-
da reaffirmed the USSR's determination to aid progressive
countries under siege--Nicaragua and Grenada, in particu-
lar. In the words of Pravda political observer Vsevolod
Ovchinnikov (Moscow TV, April 10):
The CIA is now writing another bloody page in the
chronicle of its evil-doing; counterrevolutionary
bands formed and trained by CIA agents from among
surviving Somozists have intruded into Nicaragua's
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territory from neighboring Honduras....
The notorious Monroe Doctrine...is understood ever
more cynically in the Washington corridors of power:
Latin America is the United States' patrimony. It has
been accustomed to look upon it as its own backyard,
where obedient dictatorships can be planned, and, when
necessary, their facades can be changed using coups
d'etat.
"Honduras is playing the same role in Central America that
Israel plays in the Middle East," charged TASS correspon-
dent Sergei Kudriavskii (April 12). The U.S., he added, is
"not interested in a peaceful solution." U.S. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick's proposal to submit the question of
U.S.-Nicaraguan relations to the Organization of American
States was dismissed as a "maneuver to camouflage [U.S.]
involvement in the aggression in Nicaragua."
Soviet commentators reacted scornfully to President
Reagan's April 27 speech to a joint session of Congress.
His statements that the USSR supports subversion in Central
America were "clearly designed for simpletons," averred
TASS International Service (April 28). "It is not the
USSR, Cuba, or Nicaragua, but the United States itself
which drives [the masses] to despair...and leaves them no
other choice but to rise with weapons in hand to struggle
against foreign enslavers and their local henchmen."
The Middle.East
As in previous months, Soviet propaganda stressed the al-
legedly predatory, anti-Arab nature of U.S. policy and
America's complicity with Israel. On March 28, Valentin
Lapin (Moscow World Service, in English) summed up the
Soviet view:
Reports from the Middle East indicate that following
its invasion of Lebanon last year, Israel is preparing
another phase of aggression. From the occupied
Lebanese bridgehead, Israel is going to deal a blow at
the Syrian contingent of the Arab peace-keeping force
in Lebanon and at Syria itself.
The highly dangerous situation in the Middle East is
rooted in the joint aggressive actions of the United
States and Israel. The two strategic allies, as they
call themselves, pursue the same goal. One is wiping
out the Palestinian Arabs....
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And here's the latest example: More than 200 school-
girls have been gassed in the Palestinian city of
Janin. According to doctors, the girls were exposed
to nerve gas. Toxic agents are used against Arab
children; phosphorous and cluster bombs are dropped on
the people of Lebanon; knives and grenades are used
against the unarmed people of the Sabra and Shatila
Palestinian refugee camps--these are stages of a
criminal aggression which Israel has been carrying out
against the peoples of the Middle East with the direct
backing of the United States.
On the same theme, TASS's Kornilov stated (Moscow Domestic
Service, April 3), "It is now obvious to the whole world
that the hilt of the Zionist dagger is in the hands of the
Reagan team and the predatory U.S. oil monopolies who are
striving to turn the Near East into an area reserved for
brazen imperialist plunder."
According to a TASS dispatch from Beirut (April 13), CIA
director William Casey visited Israel the previous week to
make last-minute changes in the "American-Israeli plan for
unleashing a new Middle East war." In much the same vein,
Soviet commentators described Secretary of State George
Shultz's trip as an American attempt to break Lebanese re-
sistance to Israeli demands and to lay the groundwork for
the attack on Syria. Shultz, in the words of one TASS cor-
respondent (April 29), had assumed "the sordid role of Tel
Aviv's lawyer."
Despite these charges, Soviet media also held Israel cul-
pable for the April 18 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in
Beirut. Observing that "the Israelis alone have benefited
from the incident," a TASS dispatch from Damascus (April
21) concluded: "This act of terrorism provoked by Israel
creates new serious problems in ensuring a just and lasting
peace in the Middle East."
Other Issues
In reporting on world events, Soviet propagandists empha-
sized the pervasiveness of U.S. aggression. Further exam-
ples of American imperialism's worldwide reach:
Washington's "unceasing provocations against People's
Poland." According to Moscow Domestic Service April 7),
t chief aim of the organizers of ideological sabotage--
the attempt to discredit socialism--remains unaltered."
The Voice of America is accused of "giving encouragement to
the counterrevolutionary extremist elements," and Radio
Free Europe (one of the CIA's "kept women") "uses the air-
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waves to transmit inflammatory calls for a boycott against
everything-.proposed by the [Polish] authorities."
U.S. support for counterrevolutionaries in Afghanistan.
The Soviet media followed their standard line in justifying
the Soviet occupation. According to the DRA National
Defense Minister (TASS, April 25), the USSR "is extending
all-around support in repulsing outside aggression carried
out by international imperialism headed by the United
States."
CIA subversion in India. "While earlier it was a question
of wresting the northeastern territories from India under
the ' I3rahanaputra' plan, now the CIA has added to them the.,
northwestern state of Punjab and a number of other regior.ts
of the country" (Sotsialisticheskaia industriia, March 4).
According to TASS April 13), American and Pakistani espi-
onage services send Afghan "counterrevolutionary scum" to
India to carry out subversion.
CIA la.ns "o.r , coups, assassinations in Africa. "In Lagos,
Nigeria, the press has published CIA documents... con-
taining plans for the assassination of two prominent polit-
ical figures.... In Ghana, the United States Ambassador was
found to be helping groups that were trying to organize an
invasion with a view to overthrowing the legitimate govern-
ment.... The covert actions of the CIA have taken on catas-
trophic proportions since the Reagan Administration came to
power and began to make greater use of it to achieve United
States objectives in Africa. CIA operations have been ex-
posed in eastern Africa and in Mozambique and Zambia, and
now in Nigeria and Ghana. The Reagan Administration auto-
matically classifies as opponents all countries that refuse
to toe Washington's line and then instructs the CIA to act"
(Moscow English broadcast to North America, April 18).
Cruise missiles in the Near East and Africa. The Pentagon
allegedly plans to deploy cruise missiles in proximity to
the Strait of Hormoz and Bab al Mandab (broadcast from
Baku, in Azeri, March 14) as well as in the Republic of
South Africa (Moscow Domestic Television, March 9).
U.S.-Japanese militarism. "The Pentagon is pressing for-
ward with its plans to build up the U.S. Navy in the Far
East and to turn the Japanese archipelago into a strategic
staging area for adventurist actions in the region" (TASS,
in English, March 16). Aided by the "militaristic" Naka-
sone government, the U.S. "intends to create in Japan a
mighty nuclear missile strike force aimed against the Sov-
iet Union" (Krasnaia zvezda, April 17).
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Listed below are representative Soviet press and TASS items on
themes discussed in this report. Translations or summaries of
these items appeared in the FBIS Daily Report (Soviet Union)
during March and April.
MILITARY THEMES/ARMS CONTROL
"Criminal Plans of the U.S. Administration," Krasnaia zvezda,
March 6.
"Condemnation of Lies," Krasnaia zvezda, March 11. [Critique
of Soviet Military Power.
"A Strategy.of Nuclear Folly," by. M. Ponomarev, Krasnaia
zvezda, March 13.
"U.S.A.: 'Chemical Rearmament' Program," by A. Gol'ts,
Krasnaia zvezda, March 20.
"Iu. V. Andropov Answers a Pravda Correspondent's Questions,"
Pravda, March 27.
Letter to President Reagan from Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and
All Russia, New York Times, April 3, and TASS English, April 4.
"A. A. Gromyko's Press Conference," Pravda, April 4.
"The President's April Fool Jokes," by Vitalii Kobysh,
Literaturnaia gazeta, April 6.
"Sensible Voices," by V. Matveev, Izvestiia, April 10. [On
domestic opposition to Reagan's "militarism."]
"Let the Living Live in Peace," by S. Kondrashov, Izvestiia,
April 17. [On "Sovietophobia" in the U.S.]
"A Nest for the 'Hawk'," by Viktor Linnik, Pravda, April 19.
[On K. Adelman's confirmation.]
"Words of Truth: A Happy Day in the Life of Samantha Smith,"
by T. Kolesnichenko, Pravda, April 28.
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"An Influential Force of Our Time," by Nikolai Pastukhov,
Sel'skaia zhizn', March 12.
"Delhi's Inviting Voice," Izvestiia, March 14.
"Washington's Shady Game," by I. Golembiovskii, Izvestiia,
April 16. [U.S. policy in Central America]
"In the Snares of a Fallacious Policy," by V. Kistov, Pravda,
April 17. [U.S. policy in Central America]
"Japan Being Turned into a Nuclear Bridgehead," by V.
Vinogradov, Krasnaia zvezda, April 17.
Allegations of CIA plots in Africa, TASS English, April 18.
Commentary on Israel's preparations for war against Syria, by
A. Bogatyrev, TASS English, April 24.
Commentary on Shultz's trip to the Middle East, by Nikolai
Pakhomov, TASS, April 25.
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