Word: deploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shatter Western solidarity. On the other hand, French officials maintained that Giscard was only following Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to mediate between East and West. The focus of the summit was not disclosed in advance, but probable topics included NATO'S plans to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, which have upset the Soviets, and the Warsaw Pact's year-old call for a European conference on detente and disarmament...
...truly neutral Afghanistan, that would be necessary to give detente new life. The Soviets argue that it is up to Washington to demonstrate its commitment to better relations by, among other things, ratifying SALT II, calling off the boycott campaign against the Moscow Olympics and reversing the decision to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
...year, increase ammunition stockpiles and improve defenses against Soviet chemical warfare. Then by the mid-1980s, the allies intend to complete the program's second stage: expand reserve forces, help the U.S. build up stocks of munitions for U.S. units to be dispatched to Europe in an emergency, deploy more electronic jamming devices and remodel civilian aircraft so that they could be converted quickly to carry troops and weapons...
...were indications at a high-level NATO meeting last week that the tempo of the pact's modernization program might quicken the spending increase. France and Britain are updating their own small nuclear forces. Europe has also strengthened the alliance by defying Soviet protests and allowing the U.S. to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in some countries. To bolster NATO even more, the U.S. is asking its friends to assume further responsibility for their own defense, thereby freeing American forces for duty in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...
...wedge between the U.S. and its Western European allies. Last week Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov called for a joint NATO-Warsaw Pact "conference on military detente and disarmament in Europe." If NATO's approval last December of a U.S. proposal to deploy new medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe could only be canceled, said the two Communist Foreign Ministers, then talks could begin on reducing a comparable Soviet missile force...