Word: doppelbeschluss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union open negotiations aimed at reducing the number of atomic weapons based in Europe. Last May, just as the Western European antimissile movement began gaming strength, the Chancellor had threatened to resign if left-wing party members succeeded in withdrawing the S.P.D.'s backing for NATO's Doppelbeschluss, or two-track decision...
...Europe. The Europeans hoped that, if the U.S. could persuade Moscow to eliminate the 300 SS-20 missile launchers that could be aimed at Western Europe, NATO would not need to respond by deploying its own new missiles. But the powerful left wing of the S.P.D. opposes the Doppelbeschluss, or two-track decision, as risking an unnecessary escalation of the arms race. Bolstered by the strength of the West German peace movement, Schmidt's critics in the party have set out to defeat his defense policies at the Munich congress, even if it means toppling him in the process...
...whole issue until a special convention in the fall of 1983. The party hoped to give the U.S.-Soviet talks enough time to make progress. The left-wingers, however, would not go along with this maneuver. At local party meetings, they presented a battery of motions opposing the Doppelbeschluss. The left's main hope is pinned on a proposal for a total freeze on all new NATO and Warsaw Pact intermediate-range missiles until the Geneva negotiations end. Says Erhard Eppler, a leader of the peace movement and one of Schmidt's main critics within the S.P.D...
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