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NATO'S inability, or unwillingness, to match the Soviet buildup in Europe is one of the reasons the Administration has cited for launching a neutron program. In 1977, following the same reasoning, President Jimmy Carter tried to convince NATO allies to let the U.S. deploy the warheads in Europe. West German Chancellor Schmidt, despite the opposition within his own party, at that time privately assured Carter that his government would eventually allow their deployment if other NATO countries would follow suit. Publicly, Schmidt said then, as he did last week, that the production of the bomb was "solely...
Schmidt was privately irritated when Brandt took it upon himself to travel to Moscow in June to discuss the missile issue directly with Soviet President Brezhnev. Upon his return, he spoke well of the so-called zero solution to disarmament, a proposal to have the U.S. agree not to deploy any new Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe while requiring the Soviets only to begin negotiations about the removal of the 250 SS-20s already in place...
...Europe could be destroyed in a war, and this has been true almost since the end of the last war. But the TNF quite suddenly this spring became a focus of fear and suspicion. The fear is that far from deterring an SS-20 attack, the NATO intention to deploy weapons of similar range might actually provoke attack. The suspicion, nourished by the hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric of the incoming Reagan Administration, is that the U.S. believes there could be such a thing as "victory" in a nuclear war and seeks the capacity to conduct the next war strictly...
When the Carter Administration committed the U.S. to the TNF, it also pledged a "two-track" approach -good-faith negotiations with the Soviets on TNF limitations while we were preparing to deploy the weapons. Secretary Haig has now promised the beginning of such negotiations no later than Dec. 15. An important debate within the Reagan Administration, pitting very hardliners against the medium hardliners, has turned on whether the U.S. should try to get its allies to agree to the "threat assessment"-what NATO is up against, weapon by weapon, front by front-before working out the NATO negotiating position...
After the simple shocks of Dressed to Kill, De Palma is out to deploy subtler strategies. As a result, Blow Out is less scary but more skillful. One sequence, involving a murderous attack in a Philadelphia train station, tantalizes with portent and discretion. From outside a toilet stall, we see only the victim's feet fluttering beneath the door and then falling still, the limbs of this defenseless animal at rest at last. And twice De Palma exhibits his favorite technique to suggest confusion and resolution: the camera describes circles-four, six, a dozen-around his characters, ribboning them...