Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Reagan, Mitterrand is alarmed by the Soviet military buildup. Particularly worried about the deployment of an estimated 250 Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, he roundly endorses the projected deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in West Germany and other NATO countries. He agrees with the U.S. decision to produce a neutron weapon, and has confirmed that France will continue to study the development of its own. On Poland, on Afghanistan, on the nature of the Soviet threat, Mitterrand has staked out positions more reassuring to Washington than those of former President...
...places in the world that love Garland Jeffreys, New York and Paris. But something rings false. Maybe it's that the opening song, his classic "Wild in the Streets", was played last in concert, and most of the songs following are encores. There's no emotional buildup...
...They are foreign policy writ large." No longer content with surplus materiel from the arsenals of the superpowers, smaller nations are demanding state-of-the-art equipment in everything from fighters to frigates. Even as they deplore the buildup and fear its consequences, the major arms sellers echo the old dirge of 19th century slave traders: "If we don't sell, someone else will." The only effective restraint on the seller, it seems, is the difficulty in beating competitors to the most lucrative contracts...
...hardware is the 13-month-old Persian Gulf conflict. Iraq has been using Soviet MiG jets, French Mirage jets, Brazilian Urutu armored personnel carriers, and Soviet T-72 tanks to fight Iran's American F-4 jets, British Chieftain tanks and Italian-built Chinook helicopters. "The Iran-Iraq arms buildup is a classic case of internal pressures and external fears combining to produce a disaster," says a diplomat who has served in both countries...
Haig described the U.S. supply buildup as merely a "sign of reassurance," adding: "There are indications of increasing Libyan activity and threats to peaceful nations in the region." Haig also talked in Cairo with Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, whose border villages have been strafed by Libyan planes. Nimeiri says he fears a Libyan invasion, although some European diplomats in Khartoum believe the situation is not as serious as he has portrayed...