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...sounded out their alliance partners about scaling back the missile quota. The response: sympathy, but no deal. At week's end the Dutch announced a decision that pleased neither the U.S. nor the peace movement: if the Soviets add even a single SS-20 missile to their present arsenal, The Netherlands will accept the full complement of cruises, but in 1986 and 1987, a year and a half behind schedule. The Dutch reserved the right to deploy fewer if there is some sort of superpower arms-control agreement before then, none if the Soviet missile force is reduced. NATO...
...Secretary of State reiterated the longstanding U.S. conditions for better relations. The Sandinistas, Shultz said, must stop supporting the rebels in El Salvador, send an estimated 10,000 Cuban and Soviet advisers home, cut back their oversize military arsenal, and restore the civil rights that were suspended when the government proclaimed a "state of emergency" in March 1982. In response, Ortega stressed his primary complaint: the Administration's continued backing of the contra guerrillas, who are fighting to topple the Sandinistas...
...handled those clutch situations incredibly well this year, adding power to his arsenal. As a junior, he hit one home run: this year he belted live...
...northern coast of Normandy. They lay 100 miles from the great British ports of Southampton and Portsmouth, a span that no invader had successfully crossed in nearly three centuries. The Allies spent two years turning all of southern Britain into an arsenal and point of departure. They built 163 new airfields. They shipped in 2 million tons of weapons and supplies, 1,500 tanks, mountains of food and fuel. Since the targeted beachfront lacked harbors, Allied engineers built two enormous artificial harbors that could be towed across the Channel and moored in place once the beaches were...
Reagan came into office challenging both halves of that proposition. He and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger repeatedly asserted that the U.S. had fallen behind the U.S.S.R. across the board. That contention was dubious on its merits, since Reagan and Weinberger chronically undervalued the components of the American arsenal in which the U.S. enjoys significant advantages: offensive and defensive submarine warfare, bombers, cruise missiles and precision-guided conventional weapons. Superiority in those areas compensates for others where the Soviets have a numerical lead over the U.S., particularly land-based ballistic missiles. There are trends on both sides that augur badly...