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...Dole, not Bush, who launched the first strike. Several days after Iowa, the Dole campaign aired a slick, well-made ad featuring joint head shots of the Senator and the Vice President. The announcer listed areas in which Dole claimed that he had shown leadership -- Social Security, INF, tax cuts -- and then said in a stentorian voice, "George Bush had nothing to do with it." Each time, Bush's image faded a little more, until it finally vanished...
...Europeans. Sure enough, West Germany's opposition Social Democrats urged Chancellor Helmut Kohl to respond by starting to remove the 72 Pershing 1A missiles that Bonn and Washington jointly control on West German soil. But NATO officials insist that no Western missiles be scrapped until the Senate ratifies the INF accord...
...also cheaper, and create less of an economic burden than conventional weapons do--as Eisenhower knew when he implemented his New Look strategy. Most of all, nuclear weapons have forced belligerent superpowers to the negotiating table, as was evidenced after the Cuban Missile Crisis and again with the INF treaty. Eventually, nuclear weapons may produce a decrease in military expenditures if a treaty reducing conventional forces in central Europe is reached...
...writing and scholarly meetings have commemorated the world's closest brush with thermonuclear war. Even in 1988, the Cuban Missile Crisis held its own as a key factor in the debate over strategic issues and superpower relations--even to the point of coloring current arguments over the INF and START treaties. Politicians, scholars, and journalists have turned to the Crisis to draw out lessons about nuclear weapons, diplomacy, and crisis management. The publication of surprising evidence in this winter's International Security--a transcript of secret tapes which recorded the meetings of top Kennedy Administration advisers during the Crisis--shows...
...Senate reservations about the INF agreement are likely to be outweighed by the dire consequences of rejection. Speaking Friday, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a prominent conservative and former U.S. Representative to the U.N., admitted that she has doubts about aspects of the treaty. But failure to proceed at this point, said Kirkpatrick, would aggravate a deeper problem: fears in Europe that the U.S. has become essentially ungovernable. For the Senate, more is at stake than the treaty on the table...