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...most important and immediate point of contention is the installation later this year of American Pershing II ballistic and Tomahawk cruise missiles in Western Europe. The U.S. and its NATO allies quite justifiably insist on the right to deploy new weapons in Europe to redress the military imbalance resulting from the Soviet buildup in recent years, especially the arrival on the scene of some 360 SS-20 ballistic missiles, each with three warheads. The Soviets, quite outrageously but very stubbornly, have made it a cornerstone of their policy that NATO has no such right; not a single new long-range...
...officials are perplexed and angered by the West German efforts to revive interest in the walk-in-the-woods formula. Their main fear is political: if the plan to install Pershing IIs were abandoned, West Germany would move from the head of the line of countries deploying new missiles to near the end, since it would receive cruise missiles only after Britain, Italy and Belgium. Any sign that West Germany was weakening its commitment might unleash doubts among other NATO allies, not just about West German but also about American resolve, thereby threatening the entire missile deployment scheme. Washington will...
...rarely does the quest for facts and analysis involve as many members of the bureau and their disparate assignments as this week's cover package on the dramatic hardening of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy. As last week progressed, Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian moved to deploy more and more of his 18-person staff to cover the multiplying elements and events. Defense Correspondent Bruce Nelan sought to put together details of the U.S. ground and sea exercises in and around Central America, but found "the Pentagon planning group that will work out the specifics with Honduras...
...crucial win for the Administration, which plans to deploy the 96-ton, ten-warhead missiles in modified Minuteman silos in 1986. "We need the MX," President Reagan urged Congress in a letter, "not only for force modernization but to keep the Soviets moving at the negotiation tables." Expected Senate approval of the funding was held up by a filibuster by Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado, a presidential candidate, who lambasted the missile as a "vulnerable, destabilizing, first-strike weapon...
...Marchais speech seemed to mark a shift in the French Communist position on missiles in Europe. Until now, the Communists have endorsed Mitterrand's view that NATO should deploy new U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe to counter the arsenal of Soviet SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe if the U.S. and the Soviets do not reach an agreement in Geneva by the end of this year. Indeed, after Mitterrand spoke out strongly in favor of the NATO position last January in a speech to the West German Bundestag, Marchais expressed his "total accord," while stressing...