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...problems. Five years ago, ordinary people were joining up with Communist guerrilla movements and throwing over governments. Today there are ordinary people around the world who have taken up arms to resist Communist-imposed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take...
...Weinberger skirted the question of how much is enough and offered no suggestions about the best way to deploy U.S. forces to counter Soviet military might. He failed to address questions that are being asked by military experts, such as whether the U.S. really needs to float a 600-ship Navy or whether it should concentrate more on building up its ground forces against a power that is essentially landlocked...
...President is aware that it could be destabilizing if you give one side a shield that the other could not penetrate, and therefore that side would be safe to launch a war behind it. He has said that if we find that we can do this, before we deploy we would share it with the world. What kind of world would it be if the Soviets get this without the slightest intention of sharing it with anybody...
...possible that Reagan is simply driving a hard bargain with the Kremlin, trying to squeeze concessions before agreeing to a deal. He did leave a slight opening by indicating that he would be willing to negotiate with the Soviets before deploying a space-based defense system the hope of persuading them to deploy one too. He insisted, however, not only that research and deployment would continue but that "one day" the system would be tested as well, even if it means revising the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty in order to avoid violating...
...have a much cruder ground-based ASAT system in operation. For their part, the Soviets threatened to break their unilateral moratorium on ASAT testing if the Pentagon proceeded. Ironically, the system that was tested last week is not necessarily the one that the U.S. is most likely to deploy. A ground-based model, possibly using laser technology, is favored by many military scientists...