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...basic differences remain within NATO on how best to deal with the Soviet Union. Reagan and Haig will stress the need for increased defense spending to counter the Soviet military threat. The West Germans will attempt to couple any such declaration with one that emphasizes the need to reduce East-West tensions. The final result may be a statement similar to one worked out last month by NATO foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg: "The allies will persevere in their efforts to establish a more constructive East-West relationship aiming at genuine détente . .. Arms control and disarmament...
...first casualties in the war for the Falkland Islands has been the Reagan Administration's troubled attempt to mold its global ideology into a coherent foreign policy. Ronald Reagan came into office with an East-West world view that saw each crisis as a possible target of Soviet expansionism that must be vigorously opposed. Once again, unexpected events showed the world to be more complex than that, but no less challenging...
...that "we ought to be fighting. The cause of the Malvinas is the cause of Cuba, of Latin America and of the Third World." Yet despite the self-serving rhetoric of the Soviets and their clients, the majority view is that the Falklands will not inflate into an East-West showdown. "Frankly, I do not see the danger of this escalating to that extent," Reagan said last week...
...changed the acronym from SALT to START, substituting "reduction" for "limitation." His critics were beginning to wonder if the real name of the game was perhaps STALL. But in a speech he took to his alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois, on Sunday-his most comprehensive address on East-West relations since taking office-Reagan finally unveiled his proposal for a new round in negotiations with the Soviet Union. He suggested that the talks begin in June and reiterated his suggestion of a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the United Nations next month, but said he would be willing...
...Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear war in two decades. For whatever reason--and certainly the reliably grim economic news is a prime factor the support for increased defense spending which arose in the late '70s has almost...