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NATO commanders claimed that their new weapons strengthened the alliance's strategic doctrine of "flexible response," which calls for the use of INF and battlefield nuclear arms if NATO armies are threatened with defeat by superior East bloc conventional forces. Allied governments welcomed the U.S. missiles as clear symbols of America's continued commitment to Europe's defense. Nevertheless, NATO stuck to its original offer: if the Soviet SS-20s targeted on Europe were ever removed, the new NATO missiles would...
...Europeans feel under pressure to make up their minds quickly on Gorbachev's proposals. U.S.-Soviet INF negotiations resume in Geneva on Thursday, and the U.S. does not want to keep Moscow waiting long for an answer. A NATO policy-planning group will convene this week in Albuquerque to begin mapping a coordinated response. Policy planners hope to reach agreement on a European position by mid-May, mostly because they think the U.S. is in no mood to wait beyond then. Some fear that the Reagan Administration wants to hurry into an agreement that would restore much of the luster...
...INF and shorter-range missiles, Gorbachev has been changing bargaining offers with lightning speed. Some Americans wonder whether, by the time the U.S. and its European allies work out an answer to the Kremlin's latest proposals, Gorbachev may not have one or several new ones. As the U.S. and its allies consider a response, they must remain alert to the possibility, as Britain's Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe put it, that the "swiftness of the Soviet hand could deceive the Western...
...would also permit the upgrading of the Pershing I to the Pershing II, which has more than twice the range and a much more accurate warhead. At the same time, the U.S. would propose negotiations with the Soviets on a scaled- back deployment of American intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in exchange for a reduction...
...Gorbachev is offering a real trade. The U.S. has 316 missiles of its own and will have to remove them from Europe if the Soviets remove their 922 warheads. While the U.S. will get the better end numerically, the Soviets will satisfy their determination to get American INF missiles out of Europe, albeit at a considerable price...