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...Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe had only been hinting at in their informal discussions with U.S. diplomats. The Soviet Union, Andropov said, would be willing to "reduce hundreds of missiles" aimed at Western Europe if the NATO alliance reversed its decision to deploy 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles in five West European countries starting late next year. According to Andropov, the Soviets would keep in Europe "only as many missiles as are kept there by Britain and France, and not a single one more." He did not cite any figures, but arms experts interpreted...
...Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky, are being conducted behind a veil of secrecy, West Europeans have been watching assiduously for any hint, wink or nod that might reveal how the talks are progressing. Reason: one of the most emotionally charged issues of the 1983 international calendar, namely whether NATO will deploy 572 new U.S.-built nuclear missiles starting next year to respond to the buildup of Soviet intermediate-range SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe. What NATO will do hinges on the outcome of the negotiations; so when word was leaked from Washington last week that the Soviets had floated...
...Soviet negotiating position surfaced last month just as the latest session of the talks on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) was drawing to a close. The Soviet negotiators still rejected President Reagan's proposal for a "zero option," under which NATO members would reverse their decision to deploy new nuclear weapons if the Soviets dismantled all 333 of their SS-20s everywhere in the U.S.S.R., including the far east, plus the 280 aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles. Instead, during informal chats over coffee and orange juice, the Soviets let it be known that they might consider removing...
...many as 100 SS-20s from Europe. Counting three warheads for each SS-20 removed and one for each dismantled SS-4 and SS-5, the Soviets could claim to have reduced their European arsenal by 580 warheads, roughly the same number they are asking NATO not to deploy as part of the deal. The 150 or so remaining SS-20s would, by no coincidence, roughly equal the 162 missile launchers in the independent French and British nuclear forces...
...mood in Europe has changed dramatically since 1979, when, in response to concerns first put forward by then West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, NATO ministers voted to deploy the new American weapons in West Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. In what became known as the "two-track decision," the ministers decided that the U.S. would simultaneously launch a round of negotiations with the Soviet Union in which the new missiles would be used as a bargaining chip to persuade the Soviets to dismantle their SS-20s. Nonetheless, many West Europeans fear that the deployment scheme will result...