ABSTRACT
Solomentsev: Yes, they are behaving like really big bandits. Gorbachev: It is quite impossible to expect the American administration to do anything or come up with anything constructive. At present, we have to score propaganda points, continue our media offensive directed at American and international public opinion. The leaders in Washington are afraid of that. Customs have blocked for three days my statements for Reykjavik and Soviet TV. Yakovlev: Comrade Bugaev telephoned me to say that these texts are still being held up by the American customs. Gorbachev: We have to keep on applying pressure on the American administration by explaining our positions to the public and demonstrate that the responsibility for the failure to agree on the limitation and liquidation of nuclear armaments rests fairly and squarely with the Americans.
