Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting in Guadeloupe in January 1979, Carter, Schmidt, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and British Prime Minister James Callaghan examined ways in which to respond to the new Soviet weapons. Carter reportedly proposed to offset the SS-20s by deploying U.S. Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe. Giscard and Callaghan backed the idea, but Schmidt, who by then deeply mistrusted Carter, was at first skeptical. Giscard has told TIME that it was he who proposed the formula that ultimately won Schmidt's approval: a simultaneous U.S. offer to open negotiations with the Soviet...
...rather large number of SS-20s in the Soviet Union." In the view of many NATO governments, Moscow would have an overwhelming advantage in Europe if the U.S. accepted Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's proposal that the number of Soviet SS-20s be reduced to 162 to offset the British and French missiles, leaving the U.S. with no sophisticated intermediate-range missile on the Continent. For nations such as West Germany and Italy, which have no independent nuclear forces, this would raise the troublesome question of whether the U.S. would fire its nuclear weapons, thereby risking retaliation against...
Harvard's next best score came from senior Captain Steve Baker, who posted an 81 for the day. Baker's outing was different from the rest of the Crimson golfers' as his effective putting offset his less successful hitting off the tees...
...relies on simplistic charts and selective statistics. His foremost concerns are land-based intercontinental ballistic missile warheads that can reach the U.S. or intermediate-range ones that threaten Western Europe. In neither case is Reagan fantasizing the problem, but he is exaggerating it. The Soviet advantage in ICBMS is offset by an array of American assets: more and better submarine-launched weapons, a superior Navy and Air Force and a cruise-missile program that is much further along...
...also been blurred by the government's frequent use of falsehood as a basis of foreign policy. We hear, for example, that Soviet SS-20 missiles pointed westward are a grave and imminent threat, and that hundreds of new Pershing II missiles must immediately be deployed to offset the SS-20s. Even by the logic of the arms race--if such a thing can be said to exist--the current provocative stance of the U.S. government is absurd...