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...when the NATO powers voted to develop and deploy a new medium-range nuclear strike force in Western Europe by 1983. The NATO force would consist of 572 Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles capable of striking Soviet territory. That force was aimed at countering the expanding Soviet arsenal of comparable weapons that already face Western Europe, which include 50 Backfire bombers and 200 medium-range SS-20 missiles. The Kremlin refused all offers to bargain with the Western allies on mutual reduction of intermediate-range systems unless NATO rescinded its deployment decision...
...Thus most of the 350 worshipers in the church last week thought it was just another example of play-acting when Alvin Lee King III, 46, burst in as the congregation was singing More About Jesus. King was wearing Army fatigues, a flak jacket and helmet, and carrying an arsenal: an AR-15 rifle with a bayonet, an M-1 rifle, a pearl-handled .22-cal. pistol and a .38-cal. pistol. Slung over his shoulder was a pack stuffed with 250 rounds of ammunition...
...will not affect Moscow's numerical lead in several categories. The U.S.S.R. is ahead 1,398 vs. 1,054 in intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, 950 vs. 656 in submarine-launched ballistic missiles and an estimated 7,836 vs. 3,253 in megatonnage, an important measure of a nuclear arsenal's sheer destructive force...
While Moscow's ever enlarging arsenal is expensive, its military manpower is relatively cheap, accounting for less than 30% of defense spending. By contrast, personnel costs devour 53.4% of the $131 billion U.S. military budget. Moscow's source of cheap manpower: conscription. Every Soviet male must register with his local draft board at age 17. A year later, under the Universal Military Service Law of 1967, he receives an official postcard that simply states, "You are urged to appear" at an induction center. Those who fail to do so without a legitimate excuse are subject to arrest and face...
...launch into a long, angry, but obviously one-sided litany of grievances: the President's letter to dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov barely three weeks into Carter's presidency; Carter's ill-fated ?and ill-considered?opening move in SALT, which would have required drastic reductions in the Soviet arsenal; his unseemly rush to normalize diplomatic relations with Peking, grant China most-favored-nation status and sell it military equipment; his saber rattling over the belated discovery last August of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...