Word: nato
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet ploy to keep NATO from deploying new weapons...
...member nations kept emphasizing that it will be politically possible to deploy new medium-range theater missiles in Europe only if SALT is approved. Without the pact, jittery West Europeans living only a few hundred miles from the Iron Curtain would not consent to the nuclear weaponry that nato so urgently needs, notably 1,000-mile range Pershing II and ground-based Cruise missiles capable of striking Soviet cities and military targets...
Though the Carter Administration lad earlier claimed that SALT should be judged on its own merits, the White House was clearly linking the pact to NATO concerns last week. If the treaty is rejected, Administration spokesmen declared, Western Europe might face the breakdown of NATO and eventual "Finlandization," as its members seek private accommodations with the Soviet Union. Warned Delaware Democrat Joe Biden, a leading pro-SALT Senator: "Our NATO allies have had their confidence shaken by our slow response to the energy crisis, by the decline of the dollar, and by what they perceive as American foreign policy setbacks...
Candidates who have not yet received invitations include Gen. Alexander Haig, former Supreme Commander of NATO, Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) and Benjamin Fernandez, a chicano California businessman...
After shooting an expensive cat that one passenger has let out of its carrying case, the terrorists order the pilot to land his 747 at a Dutch airport. There they demand and get a NATO helicopter to lift them and their hostages to a comfortably furnished farmhouse in Flevoland, one of the large areas that the industrious Hollanders have reclaimed from the sea. The house becomes the stage where this incongruous assembly play out their views on politics, religion, art and morality...