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...allies have been particularly strained by worries that Reagan's simplistic East-West world view would never translate into a coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility that Western allies dread: a limited nuclear war fought on European territory. Said he: "I could...
...this expansion is by giving some indication that if it continues conflict will be unavoidable. I think that there is a real possibility of the Soviet Union invading Western Europe, and ... that putting Pershing and cruise missles in West Germant might be a real deterrent, as well as the neutron bomb...
...Soviet military buildup. Particularly worried about the deployment of an estimated 250 Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, he roundly endorses the projected deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in West Germany and other NATO countries. He agrees with the U.S. decision to produce a neutron weapon, and has confirmed that France will continue to study the development of its own. On Poland, on Afghanistan, on the nature of the Soviet threat, Mitterrand has staked out positions more reassuring to Washington than those of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He will...
...stop the Americans' neutron bomb, we'll remove the Soviets' SS-20's!" predicted an exultant pacifist as 300,000 West Germans poured into Bonn for the biggest demonstration ever held in the Federal Republic. They marched through the capital carrying carnations, crosses and banners: REAGAN'S PEACE IS OUR DEATH; TO BE OR NATO BE. Among the demonstrators was a predictable share of Communists. But the majority were markedly middleclass, like so many members of the powerful antinuke crusade that is causing in creasing political unease throughout Western Europe. Doctors, teachers, social workers...
...decision to deploy 572 U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe as a counter to some 320 Soviet SS-20 missiles currently targeted on European cities. In addition, the peace movement reacted angrily to Ronald Reagan's announcement last month that the U.S. would produce neutron weapons that may ultimately be deployed in Europe...