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...author of half a dozen books (including The Soviet Bloc and Ideology and Power in Soviet Politics), Zbigniew Brzezinski (pronounced Zbig-nyeff Breh-zhin-skee) is one of the nation's top analysts of Soviet and East European affairs and of East-West relations...
...SOVIET RELATIONS: "We should develop closer East-West relations, but our public must be told that this relationship is competitive by history's dictates and cooperative by contemporary necessities. I don't think we can use the limited leverage we have to obtain profoundly significant systemic change in the Soviet Union...
...nearly a decade, this has been NATO's standard scenario of an East-West war. Today, however, concern is mounting, especially among West Europeans, that this is dangerously outdated. After a recent inspection of NATO installations, Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that Soviet forces in Europe could now mount a surprise attack, blitz their way past NATO's defenses and reach the Rhine in 48 hours. Reported the Senators: "Should the NATO alliance fail to improve its conventional war-fighting capabilities ... the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies soon...
...sure, there is nothing in the state of East-West relations today that would make a Soviet attack likely. But Western strategists cannot afford to rule out the possibility of a sudden change in Moscow's policy. In case of a sudden military threat, NATO could not mount a credible deterrent-at present force levels and with the present economic and political weaknesses of many Western governments. In terms of numbers, the alliance today is outmanned, outgunned, out-tanked and out-planed. This is primarily the result of the massive buildup of Soviet armed forces that began ten years...
...with Carter that he proposed during his acceptance speech. Because of his familiarity with the issues, Ford is convinced he will do well. Negotiating arrangements for the debates, emissaries from the two camps are circling each other like Soviet and American underlings worrying over the table shape for an East-West conference. Ford wants the debates to begin early in September; Carter is holding out for later in the month, presumably to give him more time to prepare. Ford wants to confine the sessions to such single topics as foreign policy or national defense-his strong suits. Carter wants...