When the bulletin crackled out of Moscow, the public consciousness and the front pages of the U.S. were occupied largely by domestic mattersthe closing battles in Congress, the Teamster scandals, inflation. The bulletin: Soviet Russia had fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, said the Kremlin, adding ominously that "the results obtained show that it is possible to direct missiles into any part of the world."
Across the Communist empire the Red propaganda network chattered into action. "Good news has come from the Soviet Union," crowed East Germany's Neues Deutschland. "The most powerful weapon...
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