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[The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles … on a tightrope over the abyss.

— Andrei Gromyko

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Time (11 Mar 1985)

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Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

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