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...Soviet President, who telephoned Bush at Camp David to give him a 20-minute preview of his proposals, followed the U.S. in taking strategic bombers off alert and moving their nuclear weapons into warehouses. Gorbachev also followed Bush in scrapping tactical nuclear missiles, land based as well as naval. In addition, he proposed negotiations to reduce the number of remaining strategic weapons by half, while at the same time announcing that from now on Soviet mobile missiles would be kept stationary. The Soviet leader further announced a one-year moratorium on nuclear tests and called on others to follow suit...
After the Pentagon announced that it had sent a few hundred Marines to Guantanamo Bay naval base in case the 15,000 American citizens in Haiti had to be evacuated, spokesman Pete Williams quickly explained that it was only a precaution. The U.S. had "absolutely no interest" in using force, he said, and added, "I don't think we are going to have to carry out an evacuation...
...Port-au-Prince last week, there was scant evidence of who was in charge. The power vacuum was visible at military headquarters, where a handful of soldiers gazed at Cable News Network and a burly naval officer was watching Poltergeist II. He had no idea where Cedras or his aides might...
...these are for the most part minor gestures that will leave intact the main concepts and structures of American defense. In some cases, Bush was doing little more than accepting recommendations that experts have long been making for strictly military reasons. For example, a number of prominent specialists on naval warfare have argued for years that sea-launched nuclear cruise missiles are a bad idea in their own right...
...ballistic missiles, which are considered strategic weapons. But nuclear SLCMs (sea-launched cruise missiles) will be taken off attack subs and surface ships, and nuclear bombs will be removed from aircraft carriers, to be stored for possible redeployment. Nonetheless, this action unilaterally satisfies a long-standing Soviet demand that naval forces be involved in any nuclear cutbacks -- a demand that American admirals had resisted fiercely and, until now, successfully...