Article: Stretching the syllogism. (Soviet reforms seen as effort to stop Strategic Defense Initiative)

STRETCHING THE SYLLOGISM

THE TOURING VIPs are back from theSoviet Union, and they scattered to the Sunday morning network interrogations. Henry Kissinger gave his impressions, and expanded on them in a telephone call.

Yes (he said), what is going on in theSoviet Union is different from the gyrations of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. The new managers, in particular Gorbachev, are hard pressed by objective domestic conditions to engage in a measure of liberalization. And this, needless to say, we should all welcome, even as we have welcomed the strides toward freedom and the marketplace in China, however erratic. But it is also plain that the leaders in the ...

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