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...even be discussed, let alone resolved. One such issue is the placement of nuclear weapons in Europe. While the majority party, the CDA, favors Reagan's plans, the D'66 and the PvDA, two parties which, absolutely critical to the success of the government, were elected on an anti-nuclear platform. As a result, the Netherlands' government has been entered into a deadlock, leaving it catatonic on the subject of nuclear arms. This frozen state drives the Dutch daily to an increasingly precarious position regarding the U.S.--their most valuable ally...
...particularly hardline view of this matter because of the ambivalence many European nations feel about nuclear weapons. The U.S. now believes Europe is in rebellion and the recent assassination attempt on the American General Kroesin in West Germany has only aggravated the situation. Accusations have even been made that anti-nuclear protests throughout Europe and especially in Holland are secretly Soviet-supported and financed. America has, rightly or wrongly, singled out Holland as the leader of this apparent 'revolt', but she is a leader without support. Important loans and industrial contracts have been held up and the Dutch are powerless...
...council also voted to include an anti-nuclear weapons referendum question on the ballot for city elections in November. Observers predicted the referendum might draw student voters to the polls...
...arms race has grown too large for an anti-nuclear movement in one country alone to succeed, Lown insists, saying. "We have to get the Russians involved. We need medical journals, medical societies, and key doctors involved." Professional ties between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the field of cardiology facilitated the IPPNW's goal of organizing doctors with similar nuclear fears in the two countries. Dr. Eugene I. Chazov, director general of the National Cardiological Research Center and Leonid Brezhnev's personal physician--a "critically important physician in the Soviet regime"--possessed enough influence in the USSR...
Ichickawa, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, distributed several of the plants to anti-nuclear groups around the country, Arian said. The groups planted them near nuclear reactors to serve as "people's radiation monitors," he added...