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...Mayers and Selznicks were among Hollywood's pilgrim families, and to judge from Irene Selznick's recollection, her father was its Cotton Mather. He preached the doctrine of sound business practices, quality without ostentation and respectability. The best parts of A Private View deal with the '20s, when moguls were old-fashioned family men who made sure that their values got into their pictures. Selznick gracefully catches the small-town quality about the Hollywood of her childhood. Readers with a sociological eye may detect the beginnings of the suburban style (commuters, private clubs, recreational wardrobes) that would...
...strike down this explanation. The first is the rather obvious weakness of the "tactical" vs. "strategic" concept when dealing with modern nuclear weapons in Europe. All of the weapons at the core of the current debate--572 yet-to-be-deployed American cruise and ballistic missiles, 243 Soviet SS-20s with three warheads each, French and British subs with 272 warheads in all, and an assortment of aircraft on both sides--can travel hundreds of miles and destroy every major target in Europe, including Russia. Tactical weapons, by definition, are short-range, low-yield nuclear devices designed for battlefield...
...bloc forces. By having nuclear forces, Britain and France receive "more bang for the buck," so to speak; in theory these weapons serve as a deterrent to the huge conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact. In practice, they would have to survive a first strike by the Soviet SS-20s, and in any case their use in a wartime situation would be subject to innumerable uncertainties and problems. Because of the numerical superiority of the SS-20s, they would hardly stand up alone...
...major impediment to teaching a Soviet American INF agreement is counting British and French missiles Despite Gromyko's explanation, the real issue is not affixing tags to NATO missiles which read "I am British" or "I am French." The real issue is affixing tags to Soviet SS-20s which read. "I'm headed for Germany...
...both the British and French governments have adamantly refused to let their missiles be part of U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations. "It would be a disaster," says Jacques Huntzinger, international-affairs adviser to French President François Mitterrand. "It would result in the dominance of SS-20s over Europe." For the foreseeable future, it will be up to the U.S. to keep the nuclear weapons of its European allies off the bargaining table in Geneva...