Answer to star wars THE IMPACT of Gorbachov's peace proposals has shown how effective principled political initiatives directed at the masses in the Western countries could be. Despite their limitations, they already make it clear that Moscow is essentially in a defensive position in the arms race.
Coming in the context of a new thrust in the activity of the Western peace movement, Gorbachov's proposals have thrown the Western governments off balance.
Among other things, he called the bluff of the Dutch government, which claimed that it would allow deployment of cruise missiles only in response to Soviet missile deploy-
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What is new in the Soviet proposals is that they represent a coherent for rather