Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were caught more off balance than the Communists, who have long criticized the government not only on economic affairs but also over foreign issues like Mitterrand's support for NATO's plan to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe. After learning of Fabius' appointment, members of the party politburo met in emergency session at the Communists' fortress-like glass-and-steel headquarters. Despite three hours of deliberation, they were unable to agree on how to react. The indecision continued even after Party Leader Georges Marchais had hastily returned from his vaca tion on the beaches...
...officials at the Pentagon oppose any limits on antisatellite weapons or a moratoriumon testing them. They want to test the newest such device in November. State Department arms experts, on the other hand, have been working on a variety of plans, including one that would permit each side to deploy one space-weapon sys tem to knock out relatively low-altitude satellites, while limiting the destruction of high-flying satellites that are currently be yond the reach of any existing system. "We're willing to talk about anything," claimed a State Department official. "The Pentagon is willing to talk...
...Kremlin has gone out of its way to keep old grudges alive. Invoking flimsy pretexts, it decided to the Los Angeles Olympics. It has all invitations to return to the bargaining tables in Gene preferring to deploy new weapons in Europe and to send additional to lurk near U.S. shores. The display abroad has been by a tightening of control at including efforts to silence Nobel Prize Recipient Andrei Sakharov The Kremlin has more than matched its deeds with angry, at times hysterical, A veritable Niagara of insults and threats continues to flow from the pages of Pravda...
cancellation of its plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Had the Soviets been willing to remove Euromissiles from the agenda of START and deal only with intercontinental weapons, their position might have led to an accept able compromise...
cancellation of its plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Had the Soviets been willing to remove Euromissiles from the agenda of START and deal only with intercontinental weapons, their position might have led to an accept able compromise. The result could have been significant though not drastic reductions in their ICBM forces in exchange for limitations on American air-and sea-launched cruise missiles...