Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document criticized the "unprecedented" U.S. defense buildup. The Soviet Union and its allies, it said, would not "allow military superiority to be achieved over them." But this oft-repeated warning stopped short of the heavyhanded Soviet hints dropped on the eve of the Williamsburg summit that the Warsaw Pact would consider deploying nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe if NATO went ahead with its plan to install 572 U.S.-made Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in five West European countries beginning in December. Some parts of the Warsaw Pact's final statement were even conciliatory in tone...
...alliance to scuttle its deployment plans. Some Western diplomats surmised that the bland language of the final document was a result of pressure from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, who, to Moscow's embarrassment, has frequently criticized both the East and the West for the arms buildup. Another explanation was that the Warsaw Pact leaders wanted to sound a peaceful note on the eve of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's meeting with Soviet President Yuri Andropov in Moscow this week. Andropov will undoubtedly urge Kohl not to accept deployment of Pershing II missiles on West German...
Balance indeed is the keynote of Sakharov's stand. With impressive bravery, he condemns his government for its excessive buildup in both conventional and nuclear weapons and for aggressive actions like the invasion of Afghanistan. While expressing deep sympathy for the peace movement in the West, he chides "many of those participating" because they assail NATO's plans to install U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe and "entirely ignore" the deployment of Soviet missiles that prompted those plans. He is equally forceful in portraying as highly dangerous NATO'S strategy of relying on tactical nuclear weapons...
...TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief since May, John Moody too has been observing the buildup for the Pope's visit. He talked with clergymen, officials and ordinary Polish citizens about what the Pope's homecoming might accomplish: "When the experts talk," Moody says, "they use words like spiritual renewal and moral uplift as though they were code words for political pluralism and a return to free trade unionism. But when the Poles talk, it becomes obvious that those intangible qualities-renewal of spirit and outlook-are precisely the things Poles lack most dramatically and desire most...
...page statement, which was personally cleared by Reagan, was the first comprehensive statement of U.S. policy toward the Soviets since Shultz succeeded Haig almost a year ago. The warmer tone, however, did not stop Shultz from castigating the Soviets for their arms buildup and "unconstructive involvement" in unstable areas of the world. He came close to accusing the Soviets of testing new intercontinental ballistic missiles in violation of the unratified SALT II agreement, and excoriated them for human rights "infractions." In the past decade, he said, "the changes in Soviet behavior have been for the worse...