Word: antinuclear
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...ensuing two years have seen some course correction toward the center. By the end of 1981, political pressures from across the Atlantic nudged a reluctant Administration to come forward with a proposal for INF, and by the spring of 1982 similar pressures, the freeze and antinuclear movements in particular, induced Reagan to offer...
...President had no illusion that Moscow would embrace this idea or even bargain seriously about it for many months. His 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...
...from completely stalling. But the almost universal expectation is that the Soviets will not seriously negotiate until just before the U.S. missiles begin going into Western Europe and perhaps not until after deployment has actually started. The reason: the Kremlin must first be convinced that demonstrations by the European antinuclear movement will not be strong enough to block the installation of the U.S. missiles. In other words, Moscow is hoping for a different sort of zero-zero outcome: no American missiles, no concessions from the U.S.S.R...
Reagan's advisers agreed that an announcement should be made before the Easter weekend in the hope that it would take some of the steam out of antinuclear demonstrations scheduled in Britain and West Germany over the holiday. (That hope was not entirely fulfilled: some 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators linked arms on Friday to form a human chain around Greenham Common Air Base, a British facility where cruise missiles are to be installed.) Reagan first proposed to break the news in his Los Angeles speech last Thursday. But diplomats pointed out that...
...quieter gestures in a day of theatrics for West Germany's Greens, a loose amalgam of environmentalists and antinuclear activists who last week took their seats in the national legislature for the first time. While most deputies arrived by car, the Greens marched to the Bundestag through downtown Bonn. Some carried flowers; others dragged wilted trees, which they said were killed by acid rain. Inside, the new representatives again added a touch of color to the staid legislature. Their jeans and sweaters stood out against a sea of somber business suits, while their straight-backed benches sported an array...