Word: buildups
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...main areas of dispute, trade and defense policy are not new. But tensions have been aggravated by the persistent global recession and the growing Soviet arms buildup. With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10%, U.S. business leaders complain with increasing stridency about what they consider to be unfair Japanese trading practices. A number of the announced Democratic presidential candidates have joined former Vice President Walter Mondale in calling for protection against the flood of Japanese imports (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). In addition, at a time when the U.S. is devoting 6% of its G.N.P. to defense, vs. less than...
...departments were ordered to cut their budgets by 10%. But even if Nakasone can raise military expenditures by 7% or 8% over the next five years, U.S. officials will not be satisfied. Says Admiral Robert F. Long, former commander in chief of the Pacific: "At the present rate of buildup, the Japanese will be incapable of carrying out the objectives they set for themselves." Only by cracking the 1%-of-G.N.P. ceiling on military spending will Japan meet its objectives. Nakasone had hinted that he might try to do so, but he now says he will stay within that...
...contrast to the hostility shown Tanaka in 1974, Nakasone's reception in Indonesia was warm. Apparently confident that Nakasone will not lead his nation on an expansionist path, President Suharto did not even raise the question of Japan's recent military buildup. In Manila, Nakasone expressed his deep regret to President Marcos over Japan's wartime depredations in the islands. According to Nakasone, Marcos was sufficiently moved by the gesture to declare that "the era of stability has opened in Asia." In the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Nakasone firmly rejected the notion of any future military...
Stymied at Geneva, the U.S. has been seeking other talks with the Soviets. Secretary of State George Shultz, in a recent memo to the President, argued that expanded contacts could now be pursued, since Reagan's military buildup had put him in a position to negotiate from strength, and that failure to seek better relations with Moscow would only enhance Reagan's reputation as a dangerous hardliner. Visiting with the President in Washington last week, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reiterated the enthusiasm of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who met with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow...
...what that would mean to us." Kohl, whose self-confidence is as solid as his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, seemed untouched by any sense of historic guilt. It was the Soviet Union, he said, that had upset the balance of power in Europe by its major buildup of SS-20 missiles...