Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet buildup in conventional weapons has been equally significant. Although Brezhnev says that "the forces of either side in sum total approximately equal each other," NATO remains outgunned and outmanned by the Warsaw Pact in the strategically crucial central and northern European regions. This remains true despite the West's recent program to upgrade its forces. Facing NATO'S 7,000 tanks and 2,700 artillery pieces, for example, are 21,000 and 10,000, respectively, for the East. In manpower NATO is dwarfed 626,000 vs. 943,000. Such overwhelming military superiority could tempt the Soviets to try enforcing...
...could mean a sharp curtailment of cooperation with the Pentagon on nuclear weaponry, the backbone of Britain's strategic deterrent. And Bonn does not want to be prevented from acquiring nonnuclear cruise missiles, which it has been counting on as the most promising defense against masses of Warsaw Pact tanks...
Opposition in the Senate, where the fate of the treaty would be decided, will probably be led by Democrat Jackson. Before it reaches the floor, the pact has to pass through his Subcommittee on Arms Control. He argues that while the pact establishes numerical equality in weaponry, it fails to take into account the greater size and power of Soviet missiles...
...Administration count indicates that 29 Senators are either against the pact or leaning that way-just five short of the number needed to sink it. Moreover, among the 35 Senators expected to favor the treaty, at least eight are shaky. Senate supporters fume that the White House has not begun to match the lobbying effort of the opposition...
...wrote letters to the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, assuring them once again that his initiative was aimed not at a separate Egyptian-Israeli peace but at a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. He also reaffirmed his determination to link any pact to progress on an overall settlement involving the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...