Word: pact
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Nonetheless, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not back down, and last week formally proposed negotiations with Moscow. In the U.S. view, the German demands threaten the entire NATO strategy of nuclear deterrence. For 40 years NATO has relied on nuclear weapons to offset the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming superiority in conventional arms. The backbone of its land-based tactical nuclear force consists of 88 U.S.-made Lance launchers...
Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...
Washington and London maintain that talks on tactical nuclear arsenals should not begin as long as the Warsaw Pact alliance has a superiority in conventional forces...
...fair, there was little of the shamelessly self-congratulatory rhetoric that normally consecrates such empty agreements. The President called the budget pact a "first, manageable step" taken "in a constructive, bipartisan spirit." The Democrats reflected mild embarrassment over the ease with which they had capitulated to Bush's no-new-taxes pledge, something close to the Administration's defense-spending target and budget chief Richard Darman's strategy of forcing Congress to make the fiscally necessary but unpopular cuts in domestic programs. "This is not a heroic agreement," said House Speaker Jim Wright, putting it mildly. And Senate Majority Leader...
When is a deal not a deal? Buyout agreements are getting trickier because they now bristle with escape hatches. Last month Donald Trump balked on his $365 million pact to buy Eastern's shuttle when the airline sought bankruptcy protections. Brandishing a clause that allowed him to dicker on the price if shuttle business fell off before his deal closed, Trump pressured Eastern into including four more airliners for the same price. The concession was worth up to $26 million...