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Wedemeyer, an Omaha boy, was one of the few men on the Allied side who had graduated from the German war college, the Kriegsakademie in Berlin. His study of geopolitics there convinced him that the key to power on the Continent was control of Eastern Europe. The only answer to...
English-language financial coverage is booming in Europe. The Financial Times (circ. 213,000 worldwide) started printing part of its run in Frankfurt in 1979 and now has 33,000 readers on the Continent. The Paris-based International Herald Tribune (European circ. 112,000), a general-interest daily, has increased...
The U.S. had stationed long-range missiles in Europe two decades ago, but they were soon removed because they seemed redundant and excessively vulnerable, given the ability of the U.S. to hit any target in the U.S.S.R. with intercontinental ballistic missiles, bombers based in the U.S. and missiles launched from...
The purpose, as some Soviet officials have admitted in private, is to come as close as possible to driving the U.S. nuclear presence off the Continent. "We're Europeans," said one Soviet official. "You Americans are not. You have no business being here with your nuclear weapons."
The shake-up at ACDA will inevitably set back the already faltering U.S. effort to come up with a coherent and credible negotiating posture at the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces talks, which resume Jan. 27 in Geneva. The Soviet aim there is to prevent the U.S. from deploying Pershing II...