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Schlesinger questions whether an improvement in the East-West balance of conventional forces can be reconciled with Dukakis' fiscal conservatism. It can. In addition to a modest growth in allied budgets, some funds could come from more efficient allied procurement and deployments; there could be savings from less expensive strategic forces; and Soviet forces could be constrained through arms control. The current Administration is snarled in knots of its own making and cannot resolve these matters. The task for the next President will be to work with Congress to match defense and deterrence with arms reduction and economic reality...
...distance calls, or even ring up nearby Chicago. O'Hare Airport endured two days of flight delays when controllers lost contact with the air-traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. From posh Oak Brook, where companies like McDonald's have their headquarters, to the high-tech corridor along the East-West Tollway, circuits were jammed for days...
...likelihood that defense outlays will increase is dim, however, since European economic growth rates are slowing. Another inhibiting factor, a senior U.S. official notes, is that "arms talks are making progress and detente is in the air." And just as crises tend to pull NATO together, any easing of East-West tensions tends to magnify the forces pulling the alliance apart...
CHESS. Trevor Nunn (Cats, Les Miserables, Starlight Express) directs a fourth Broadway musical barn burner, mixing board games, romance, East-West relations and a superb rock score...
Despite the apparent shunting aside of Ligachev, few Soviet experts believe that a fundamental or far-reaching power struggle is under way. Peter Danylow, an analyst of East-West affairs in Bonn, argues that a basic policy consensus must exist. The reason: it would otherwise be hard to imagine the Soviet leadership approving the agreement to withdraw forces from Afghanistan...