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 Probably the most clear-cut Soviet violation, for example, is the Krasnoyarsk radar.
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 -- Arms Control Reality, Nov. 20, 1984, the first of some 20 Journal editorials
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 saying 
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that Krasnoyarsk violated the ABM treaty.
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 -- Whether the installation is for early warning or space track,
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 it clearly is not deployed,
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 the lawmakers said.
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 Thus we judge it to be not a violation of the ABM treaty at this time.
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 The delegation included a reporter from the New York Times, aides to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Rep. Les AuCoin, and Natural Resources Defense Council staff members.
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 -- The Washington Post, Sept. 9, 1987.
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 -- The U.S.S.R. has taken unprecedented unilateral measures of openness,
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 by giving American representatives a possibility
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 to inspect the building site of the Krasnoyarsk radar as well as radar vans in the areas of Gomel and Moscow,
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 so as to see for themselves
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 that there are no violations of the ABM treaty of 1972 on the part of the Soviet Union.
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 -- Letter from Eduard Shevardnadze to U.N. Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar,
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 reported in Tass, June 10, 1988.
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 -- The construction of this station equal in size to the Egyptian pyramids constituted,
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 I say it directly,
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 a clear violation of ABM.
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 -- Eduard Shevardnadze, Oct. 23, 1989.
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 We're happy,
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 we guess,
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 to receive confirmation of the Krasnoyarsk violation from the Soviets,
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 five years after we started writing about it.
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 Perhaps even the American apologists will now accede.
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 Without question,
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 something intriguing is going on in the policy chambers of the Politburo.
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 As it bids for new agreements, new loans and indeed admission to the civilized world,
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 the Soviet government has recognized 
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it has a credibility problem.
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 So after 70 years, it is confessing the obvious,
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 hoping to be believed about other things.
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 It's not enough.
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 If the Soviets want to be believed,
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 they need to start telling the truth about more than the totally obvious.
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 Our own test of glasnost's authenticity would be a Soviet decision
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 to open itself to a complete international examination of one of the most troubling mysteries in U.S.-Soviet relations
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 -- the reported 1979 anthrax outbreak at a Soviet military facility in Sverdlovsk.
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 The U.S. government has never waivered in its assessment of this incident as an accident at a biological weapons facility there, and hence a violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
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 The Pentagon's recently issued Soviet Military Power,
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 though in general adopting a softer line,
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 repeated the Sverdlovsk assessment.
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 It also was detailed in Congressional testimony this past February:
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45
 An explosion at the Microbiology and Virology Institute in Sverdlovsk released anthrax germs
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 that caused a significant number of deaths.
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 Since Mr. Shevardnadze did not address this topic before the Supreme Soviet,
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 the Soviet Union's official position remains
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 that the anthrax deaths were caused by tainted meat.
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 We doubt this claim
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 just as we doubted Mr. Shevardnadze's assurance last year
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 that Krasnoyarsk didn't violate the ABM treaty.
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 And just as we did not believe the tendentious claims of the Congressmen and arms-control advocates
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 who visited Krasnoyarsk,
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 we are in no way persuaded by the assent to the tainted-meat theory by a U.S. team of scientists
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 who met with Soviet counterparts in Washington last year.
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 The Soviets' explanation is that the anthrax came from one lot of animal feed 
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made from the bones of cattle 
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that grazed on soil
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 that was naturally infected with anthrax spores.
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 Harvard's Matthew Meselson
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 -- who 
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we read
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 has sold something
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 called the scientific community on the notion
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66
 that yellow rain attacks on the Laotian Hmong were in fact the result of fecal showers by giant bees --
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 found the Soviet anthrax scenario completely plausible.
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 We don't believe it.
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 And we certainly do not believe 
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that Mr. Gorbachev or any of his emissaries yet deserve to have the West take their word for it.
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 Sverdlovsk is a large gray cloud over glasnost and indeed over the legitimacy of the arms-control process itself.
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 The U.S. government's Sverdlovsk complaint, as with Krasnoyarsk, is no mere political posturing.
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73
 Biological weapons violations have figured little in political debate,
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74
 and indeed have not been pressed vigorously enough by the U.S. government.
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75
 But the stated U.S. position is detailed and specific,
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76
 and the prospect of biological warfare is profoundly chilling.
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77
 The Soviets should be willing to set in motion a process
5075
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 that would allow them to acknowledge 
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that Sverdlovsk violated the 1972 agreement
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 or, alternatively, that would give U.S. specialists reasonable confidence 
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that this was a wholly civilian accident.
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 Until that happens,
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 glasnost cannot begin to deserve the kind of credibility
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 Mr. Shevardnadze was bidding for with his confessions on Monday.
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