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...pledge as phony ("unverifiable and unenforceable" is the way one State Department spokesman put it) and even potentially dangerous. The U.S. and its NATO allies have long relied on tactical nuclear weapons to counter the numerical superiority of the ground forces that the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations maintain in Europe. In the American view, a Western no-first-use pledge would remove a powerful deterrent to a Soviet attack in Western Europe, and thus increase the danger of a war that would start out with conventional weapons but rapidly escalate into nuclear conflict. The presumption: whichever side...
...believed marching alone could bring about a more secure world ... The question is how to proceed." To previous U.S. proposals for elimination of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and reduction of strategic nuclear arms, Reagan added a suggestion for cutbacks in conventional forces. NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, he said, should reduce their armed forces in Europe to 900,000 each: 700,000 ground troops, 200,000 air force personnel. U.S. officials have made essentially the same proposal before in negotiations that have been dragging on in Vienna for nine years. Agreement has been blocked because...
...Reagan's "zero-option" proposal, to eliminate all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Reagan's slogan here is no missiles on either side-no Soviet SS-20s, no American Pershing Us [or ground-launched cruise missiles]. We could do the same thing. Tomorrow we could come out with our own program for deploying Soviet missiles near the U.S., say in the north somewhere, and then offer not to go ahead with that deployment if the U.S. would give up the MX [America's still undeployed ICBM]. That is fine as propaganda, perhaps...
...Salvador, politicians took issue with Sheehan's claim that the various parties had participated in a "pact" with the American embassy to go along with the inflated tally. But some conceded that election day had indeed been marred by irregularities. Said Luis Nelson Segovia, a deputy from the center-right Democratic Action Party: "The possibility [of fraud] has merit. There were so many variants and shortcomings on election day. But there is no proof." Christian Democratic Party Spokesman Guillermo Antonio Guevara Lacayo agreed that there had been fraud, but said that the total number of votes in question...
When he left the station to return to Harvard, Klingensmith made one "solemn pact" with his friends: he would tell anyone, whenever the subject came up, that they "ought to tip their gas station attendants...Generally, only very kind people--ministers and the like--tip. Even if it's only the change on a dollar, that's fine... If they're very saucy, then there's no reason to. But otherwise, they should be tipped, and tipped generally for their work in the rain...