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...platform is indeed to the right of Reagan on some major issues. It calls for the U.S. to become militarily superior to the Soviets, which would repudiate the policy of the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations in trying to maintain East-West parity. But Reagan has merely urged increased military spending...
...Frustrated by a six-year-old East-West diplomatic standoff over Afghanistan, the jittery post-Brezhnev leadership in Moscow sends ten Warsaw Pact tank divisions rumbling across the border into West Germany. Pushing back the outnumbered NATO forces, the invaders head for the French border. As the attacking army crosses the Rhine, the French President orders the use of tactical neutron bombs to protect his country's "territorial independence." In response, a Soviet-made SS-20 missile, armed with three nuclear warheads, rises from its silo in Poland and speeds toward Paris...
...major decisions on international politics were expected at Venice. Observed a U.S. participant: "This summit is not designed to take action." But plenty of possibly acrimonious discussion was expected on the East-West tension that has arisen since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. One point of potential discord was the U.S. worry that when Schmidt meets with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow next week, he might accept a freeze on new medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. NATO plans to install 572 medium-range nuclear missiles by 1983, while the Soviets have already deployed about...
...original basis of U.S. power in Europe was military power, the strength to hold back a threatening Soviet army that was poised at the Elbe. Until recently, indeed, the chief European anxiety about the U.S. was that Washington might act rashly and blunder into an East-West crisis. Today the worry is that the U.S. has neither the military strength nor the will to keep its commitments in Europe...
Accommodation is an enigmatic term. Despite Afghanistan and the current argument over medium-range missiles, most Europeans genuinely want East-West detente, not a revival of the cold war. To this end, they will understandably pursue trade, cultural exchanges and diplomatic dialogues. But to the extent that accommodation means a series of small settlements on Soviet terms, the Europeans acquire a new kind of uneasiness. "Which is better?" asks Hamburg Publisher Gerd Bucerius. "To be allied with a mistake-prone America or to find oneself confronted by the Soviets without any alliance." To Bucerius, and he is far from alone...