Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) agreed with Byrd that time remains before the summit to ratify the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty. "We can make it if we start staying in late and we file cloture today," he told reporters...
Reagan, setting the stage for the summit, said yesterday he hoped to conclude a treaty to cut long-range nuclear arsenals before his term expires in eight months. But the president acknowledged that might not be possible...
...heard U.S. charge that several prosperous alliance members are "getting a free ride" on defense. As in Denmark, opposition parties elsewhere have threatened to overturn longstanding defense arrangements if they are voted into power. The British Labor Party and the West German Social Democrats, for example, oppose U.S. nuclear weapons on their territory...
...this a la carte approach to alliance membership confined to nuclear- deployment issues. France began the trend in 1966 when Charles de Gaulle closed down NATO bases and pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says...
Jesse Helms was making a familiar charge: the Soviets, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last March, are lying about the number of intermediate-range nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. To back up his claim, Helms distributed a chart showing missile estimates from the State Department, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The figures all conflicted, but they had one thing in common: they were highly classified. "They were code-word, code-level items," declared Democratic Senator Brock Adams of Washington, meaning that the documents were restricted even beyond top secret. Yet as committee staffers fanned...