Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example-must be included in any arms-limitation agreement. The U.S. has argued that these weapons should be reduced only if the Soviets shave their armaments in Europe as well, including medium-range nuclear missiles. These questions may be taken up in multilateral negotiations among the NATO and Warsaw Pact nations. A unilateral withdrawal of troops would obviously weaken the position of the U.S. in striking a bargain with Russia...
...Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev inadvertently came to the rescue of the Administration. He made a speech calling for serious discussion of mutual reduction of forces in Europe. Then he hit the point even harder when Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau went to Moscow last week to sign a pact of mutual cooperation with the Soviets. Both Brezhnev and Kosygin suggested to Trudeau that they wanted to pare their swollen defense budget and put the money into sorely needed housing. Thus they helped kill whatever chance the Mansfield amendment may once have had. It was handily defeated in the Senate...
...reinforcements to mobilize. "But should that force be cut in half," he says, "we would lose that option, and it would be retreat, surrender or nukes." His assessment is presumably based on the near parity in peacetime troop strength-approximately 1,105,000 NATO to 1,270,000 Warsaw Pact-of the opposing European alliances. Should the U.S. withdraw 150,000 men, the Pentagon claims, this balance would be tilted...
...trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could be accomplished just as readily with a greatly reduced force...
These Soviet planes, seven of which are believed to be at the vast, Soviet-controlled military complex at Cairo West, have not been seen in operation yet by the Warsaw Pact nations. "The only conclusion you can come to," says a Western military expert, "is that the aircraft is here for test purposes...