The Approaching Summit

The pre-summit psychological skirmishing is with us right now, and intensifying. As usual, the Soviets use Western media to fire their rounds, while denying our side access to their media. As usual, we score goals against ourselves.

Mikhail Gorbachev’s lengthy interview in Time magazine was, I should say, the most skillful exercise of its kind since Khrushchev used to grab the headlines; with the difference that Gorbachev is less likely to make gaffes of the “We will bury you” kind.