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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nunn's amendment, which he submitted during the final days of Senate debate on the defense authorization bill for fiscal 1985, called on NATO countries to increase their annual defense spending by 3% after inflation. If that commitment, which was made to President Carter in 1978, was not met, the NATO allies risked a reduction in the 326,414 U.S. troops defending Western Europe. A Pentagon report released last week concluded that, of the 16 NATO countries, only the U.S., Canada and Luxembourg had consistently met the 3% goal since 1980. NATO's conventional forces, Nunn argued, currently...
...question that continues to intrigue Presidents. Are these Soviets really heartless or are they so intimidated by the system that they cannot act human? Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believed they had found at least an auricle of Leonid Brezhnev, and detente followed. Jimmy Carter, who hand-penned some notes to Brezhnev, even thought the replies were special-until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
...Carter's Republican opponent in the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan, charged that SALT II was "fatally flawed." However, shortly before Election Day in 1980, Reagan vowed, "As President, I will make immediate preparations for negotiations on a SALT III treaty...
...SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, negotiations that began early in the "Nixon Administration, producing the 1972 SALT I treaty limiting ABMs and an interim agreement restricting offensive weapons, and ended with the 1979 SALT II treaty, signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev but never ratified by the U.S. Senate...
...American performance over the past decade is even more impressive. Despite woes that ranged from energy crises to runaway inflation, and regardless of whether Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan occupied the White House, the U.S. has managed to generate a total of 13 million new jobs, or a 14% increase. Western Europe, by contrast, has lost some 3 million jobs during the same period, while Japan, for all its competitive might, has added 5.6 million positions for a 9% gain...