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...Europe, a chart comparing missile lev els) as he delivered his message. His points: the U.S. and its allies cut back on military spending while the Soviets not only built up their conventional forces but steadily added to their arsenal of SS-20 missiles. NATO's plan to deploy new Pershing II and land-based cruise missiles was designed only to counter this threat. All programs should and would be canceled if Moscow would dismantle its own medium-range missile force. Reagan stressed that any treaty must be verifiable by both sides. Said he: "Our approach with verification will...
...would never translate into a coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility that Western allies dread: a limited nuclear war fought on European territory. Said he: "I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons against troops in the field without...
...make deep cuts in their existing arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Like Reagan, Carter had outlined his proposals in public before submitting them formally to the Soviets. Also like Reagan, Carter hoped that the Soviets could be persuaded to dismantle existing weaponry in exchange for U.S. promises not to deploy a planned system. In the strongest language, Moscow rejected the Carter-Vance proposals as absurd...
...immediate goal of the "peace" movement is to reverse a 1979 NATO decision to deploy a new generation of U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Western Europe starting in late 1983. But some of the movement's leaders are already arguing that the campaign should not cease until nuclear weapons are banned from the entire Continent, a condition that would leave the Western European countries vulnerable to the overwhelming preponderance of the Soviet Union in conventional arms. The driving force of the movement is a feeling that Europeans have lost control of their future, that they could be incinerated...
Besides putting the orbiter itself through a rigorous series of maneuvers, Engle and Truly conducted several successful tests of a 50-foot mechanical arm, which on future missions will be used to retrieve satellites for in-flight servicing or later repairs on earth, and to deploy payloads from the shuttle's cargo hold. On this mission, the 15-foot by 60-foot cargo bay held its first scientific payload, with experiments designed to study a variety of geologic, atmospheric, and oceanic features...