Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free december 1981 Hawk meets Hawk in Geneva face off by Charles Mohr new York times Paul Henry Sitzes career As a maker and a critic of foreign policy has spanned the entire period of the cold War since the second world As an unrelenting hardliner for All of that Nitze has at regular inter Vals warned that the United states was entering a period of maximum danger from the soviet requiring Mas Sive but he has also spent a significant part of his career in the role of an arms control Neotia now resumed the role of negotiator this week in Geneva As discussions began Between the United states and the soviet Union on possible reductions of intermediate and Short Range nuclear weapons stationed in but neither his Many friends nor his critics believe he will drop his role As advocate of american military buildup and sceptic about Moscow peaceful Nitze has worked for most administrations since that of Franklin Roo Sevelt and those he has not worked for he has tended to work tirelessly this was the Case with the administration of Jimmy Carter when in 1978 and 1979 Nitze the most influential and effective critic of the strategic arms limitation treaty known As Salt born in was graduated from Harvard in and spent a decade As a new York invest 1 ment banker before coming to govern ment in where he started As a specialist in foreign economic he became head of the state depart ment policy planning staff under Secre tary of state Dean Acheson in out of favor and out of office for most of president Eisenhower two Nitze was nonetheless a member of the presidential committee headed by Rowan Gaither that published the influential and controversial report called deterrence and survival in the nuclear in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations Nitze served As an assistant and then Deputy Secretary of he was appointed by president Nixon As chief negotiator for the first Strate Gic arms limitation treaty serving from 1969 to he resigned protest ing that the watergate scandal was tempting the president to seek a treaty with the soviets too in the late 1970s Nitze was the policy committee chairman of the committee on the present which vigorously opposed the ratification of Salt last year Nitze proposed defence spending be increased by an absolute minimum of billion Over a six year Sitzes cold War is one without thaws and with no apparent Promise of an impending he was the Prin Cipal author in 1950 of a now legendary National Security Council document known As which urged a four fold increase in military spending and has been cited by Many scholars As one of the opening trumpet Calls of the cold the outbreak of the korean War brought much of the spending increase Nitze his prediction that the soviet Union would have 200 nuclear weapons and the possible capacity to Knock out the United states by 1954 has been strongly criticized by Many analysts As seriously overstate in the 1957 Gaither report Nitze helped Foster the concept of the so called missile which contributed to John Ken Nedys election Vic tory in although the report did not use the words missile a joint congressional committee in 1976 called the conclusions about soviet missile capacity unduly in his critiques of the Salt 2 Nitze in the late 1970s helped to popularize and propagate the concept of a window of vulnerability in which land based strategic mis Siles would purportedly be exposed to destruction in the in an article in the journal foreign affairs last Nitze wrote there can be no doubt that situation is the gravest that the United states has faced at Leas since the soviet threat to Berlin in 195862 and possibly at any time since the end of world War of possible relevance to his new assign ment was a passage that said exist ing plans for including the plans for deployment of theater nuclear weapons should go subject Only to the unlikely Prospect of reaching effective agree ments for Mutual reduction of by John Vinocur new York times when Yuli ale Sandrovich Kvit Sinsky was named this fall As chief soviet negotiator for the Geneva nuclear arms reduction american officials reacted at first with and after a Quick intellectual with total Paul Henry Nitze one of the most striking aspects of Sitzes thinking is his belief in the political value of nuclear although he seems to doubt they have great military he has repeatedly outlined what he describes As plausible scenarios in which a president might be Black mailed or coerced by the soviet Union unless an essential equivalence in nuclear capability is William Kincaid of the arms control association describes Sitzes As an exaggerated View of the political Utility of nuclear a Man of elegant the White haired Nitze sometimes Speaks in congressional Testi Mony in 1979 he said of nuclear Black mail i that in important the Shadow of superiority at the highest level of potential violence does make a even his Adver Saries speak of his intimidating intellect and grasp of nuclear technology Nitze is married to the former Phyllis whose Grandfather was a founder of the Standard Oil of new York and founder of Pratt Institute in they have four William and Yuli Kvit Sinsky the Surprise involved Kvit Sinkys comparative youth he is 45 years old and his apparent status outside the highest Levels of the soviet the insight that immediately followed was this Moscow had picked a Ger Man a Man who would be Able to address West German Public opinion throughout the talks with skill and no and bring an understanding of West German strategic thinking Factor of capital importance in the discussion of Middle Range missiles to the negotiating table and the corridors Kvit Sinsky had until his appointment As minister or second in the soviet embassy in before that he had been an important behind Hestenes figure in constructing the fou Power agreement on Berlin More than a decade he served in the soviet embassy in East Berlin and received a doctor of Laws degree with a thesis on West he Speaks impeccable Ger Man and is the kind of according to a Diplomat who saw him often in who can and will recite sections of the West German Constitution to you by in every american disarmament officials have Kvit Sinsky is the Ideal soviet Diplomat to attempt to convince West Germany that the United states is vastly More interested in deploying a new generation of Interne Diat Range nuclear missiles in West Germany and other european nato countries than in reaching an agree ment that would forgo their if the talks should there would be no better soviet voice for articulating a plan to convince the West germans that the United states is to but there Are some striking contradictions in Kvit Sinkys is described by diplomats and by West German reporters As a Man who dislikes the Sud Deutsche a Liberal Munich new spa said he knows the germans particularly Well and likes them particularly the news Magazine Der which used a phrase taken from the soviet communist party to characterize the members of the american negotiating team As dubious also wrote that Kvit Sinsky knows the soul of the it and he Doest love an additional contradiction is that if Kvit Sinsky is expected to be the incarnation of peace and reason at he is known to talk in private in especially brutal a european Diplomat in Bonn who joined kits inks in a conversation with West German reporters in Early shortly after the soviet military intervention in recalled being startled by the harshness of the negotiators he said of were going to stay in it will be a Short Well soon bring them our culture and turn out like turkomans a reference to a soviet Central asian another who described Kvit Sinsky As a Man of enormous Charm and verbal told a Story about How the soviet Diplomat had been rude to him publicly at a soviet leading to an Exchange of raised and the guests angry but i rather liked the Diplo mat Hes very Western in that he Doest get ridiculously doctrinaire with and is quite easy to talk he can banter in about five what Kvit Sinsky has let be known about his background is that his father was a polish the Diplomat grew up in Siberia and experienced what he has described As a particularly hard Kvit Sinkys father died recently and he was deeply affected by Kvit Sinkys wife is a teacher of French and the couple have two Daugh ters in their Early 20s who live in Kvit Sinsky likes to talk about literature and reads in scandinavian and slavic languages in addition to German and one of his hosts in Bonn said he was a Good person to have lunch with and a Man not a bit afraid of a bottle of reinforcing the americans Assumption that Kvit Sinsky was chosen with specific political rather than technical negotiating tasks in mind is his limited involvement in disarmament his one known association with them was his participation for less than two years As a member of the soviet delegation at the continuing talks in Vienna on Force reductions in Cen trial in talking about himself to other diplomats in Kvit Sinsky always sought to play Down his own import referring to himself As just another Little at the same he complained to West Ern acquaintances that the embassy staff was Lazy and that he had to do All the the Job in Geneva his wife told a More of the old she explained Hes always worked Day and and now it will be even More 3 piece vested exciting new fabrics patterns and traditional executive look pin soft tone Glen tweeds in Donegal and hounds tooth flannels in solid shades of Navy and 3648 shoe save is the no frills store where you save up to 25 on Brand name footwear every come in and discover a pleasant new Way to save on the latest footwear weather guard them against sport jackets Glen shades in sizes to 48 dress Coats Wool came hair Wool Melton sizes 3848 from gifts for him dress shirts designer Brand name excellent selection of dress and casual Slacks in Wool and Wool polyester blends designer Brand name note slight additional 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