Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, Vance is anxious that U.S. policy reflect his deep concern for human rights around the world. These principles, he said, "should permeate our foreign-policy thinking." He is not unaware of the practical necessities of dealing with dictatorships or of guarding U.S. security. But he argues that the task ahead for the U.S. is to strike a proper balance. Said he: "We have got to be hardheaded, yet sensitive...
...nearly a decade, this has been NATO's standard scenario of an East-West war. Today, however, concern is mounting, especially among West Europeans, that this is dangerously outdated. After a recent inspection of NATO installations, Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that Soviet forces in Europe could now mount a surprise attack, blitz their way past NATO's defenses and reach the Rhine in 48 hours. Reported the Senators: "Should the NATO alliance fail to improve its conventional war-fighting capabilities ... the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies soon...
This is not the first time that the 15-nation alliance has been racked with doubts about its ability to repel or even sufficiently deter a Soviet-led invasion of Western Europe. Yet NATO's present concern over its battlefield limitations is probably more valid than ever...
...Russian counterparts about the loyalty of their units. Speculates a senior U.S. officer in West Germany: "If you were a Soviet general, would you feel comfort able about Polish, Czech, Hungarian -let alone Rumanian-troops?" (However, pacifism and far-left loyalties in several Western European countries are also a concern...
...Washington this week for meetings with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger. The Italian leader also hopes to talk to Jimmy Carter-or at least the President-elect's transition team-particularly since during the campaign Carter specifically viewed Communists in Western European governments as a concern but not a catastrophe and indicated interest in opening avenues of communication with them as President...