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...early 1980 Arbatov though sees a significant shirt in the U.S. attitude towards the USSR as early as 1978. He points to the NATO decision to increase military budget annually for 15 years. Carter's "five-year plan" for arms spending, and the NATO move to build and deploy new medium-range American missiles in Europe as actions detrimental to détente All pre-dated Afghanistan...
Previously, U.S. negotiators at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva had stressed the zero option: if the Soviet Union scrapped all its medium-range missiles, the U.S. would deploy no missiles at all in Europe. But, said the President, in 16 months of negotiations it has become obvious that the Soviets will not agree to that plan. Thus the U.S. was willing to accept a less ambitious solution on the missiles. Said Reagan: "It would be better to have none than to have some. But if there must be some, it is better to have few than...
...made numerous concessions to Mitterrand. Party Leader Georges Marchais and his comrades on the seven-member secretariat have grudgingly accepted policies of economic austerity that have, among other things, imposed wage restraints on their predominantly working-class constituency. After Mitterrand expressed firm support for NATO's decision to deploy new missiles in Western Europe, Marchais dutifully declared that "the Communist Party has wholly adopted the policy of the French government in which we participate...
...familiar with the deep divisions that NATO'S plan to install new nuclear missiles in Western Europe has caused on the other side of the Atlantic. Few Americans, however, expected the controversy to excite passions in a NATO country that is thousands of miles from the planned deployment sites. But, as Vice President George Bush learned during a 14-hour visit to Ottawa last week, the decision to deploy missiles in Europe has become a highly emotional issue in Canada, too. Although Bush had come prepared to talk about bilateral problems ranging from trade to tourism, the nuclear debate...
...director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies and a man believed to be close to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, followed Ogarkov's lead with an authoritative commentary published the same day in Pravda. He offered an equally chilling assessment of how Moscow would respond to the deployment of new American missiles in Europe. To preserve nuclear "equality," Arbatov said, the Soviets "would have not only to add to our missiles in Western Europe but also to deploy them near American borders." The meaning of the final phrase was left deliberately vague, but Western arms analysts thought...