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...country but also by satellite to Europe, he announced on Wednesday morning that the U.S. is now prepared to negotiate an "interim solution" to the problem of medium-range nuclear-tipped missiles in Europe. If the Soviets would dismantle a significant number of their 351 modern, triple-warhead SS-20s, Washington would reduce the number of American missiles, capable of hitting the U.S.S.R., that it is scheduled to station in Western Europe beginning in December. Instead of deploying the 572 single-warhead Pershing II and cruise missiles now planned, the U.S. would install only enough to match the Soviets warhead...
...real purpose was to prevent a potentially disastrous split between the U.S. and its NATO allies. Under pressure from a noisy antinuclear movement that regards the installation of American missiles as a dangerous escalation of the arms race (conveniently overlooking the fact that the Soviets are installing new SS-20s at the rate of one a week), West European governments have been pleading with Washington to show more flexibility in the Geneva talks. Initial government and press reaction indicated that Reagan had told Western Europe what it most wanted to hear. Said a front-page headline in the influential Paris...
...proposal "does not take into account hundreds and hundreds of U.S. nuclear-delivery aircraft based in Western Europe and on aircraft carriers." Finally, he objected strenuously to Reagan's demand that any reduction of missile totals be "global," which means that it must apply to 108 SS-20s now stationed in the Asian part of the Soviet Union and presumably targeted on China and Japan. These missiles "have nothing to do with Europe," said Gromyko, and American insistence on this demand "precludes the possibility of an agreement...
British and French missiles should be left out of Geneva bargaining, the statement asserted, because "these forces are national strategic deterrents designed to defend France and Britain," not the other West European countries menaced by the SS-20s. "To include aircraft [in the missile bargaining], as Mr. Gromyko suggests, would divert attention from the most threatening and destabilizing systems and complicate the negotiations." And SS-20s stationed in Asia must be included because these highly mobile missiles could easily be shifted westward and retargeted on Western Europe in a crisis. The statement concluded: "The Soviet Union owes the world...
...about 30 men and women, most in their mid-20s, straggle into the plush classroom. Some bear the look of their recent past--the collegiate T-shirts and knapsacks. Some sport the fashion of their professional future--the smartly tailored suits and briefcases Rob Portman joins them, settles on the green swivel seat and arranges his materials--notebook, pens, and breakfast: croissant, and a Styrofoam cup of coffee, from the bistro-cum-cafeteria, Soupcon...