Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accord. While both sides agree that the Soviets will have to reduce their strategic arsenal somewhat, it has not been decided how long Moscow can take to do so. The U.S. wants the Soviets to pare down to 2,250 strategic systems within six months after the SALT II pact is signed; Moscow would like three years to reach that number...
...take up SALT today, it probably wouldn't make it." Cranston notes that even advocates of arms control are reserving judgment on SALT II until they see the final shape of the accord. He estimates that roughly 40 Senators favor the prospective arms limitation pact and an equal number are undecided, while a hard core of 20 are opposed. It takes only 34 votes to block approval. Cranston feels, however, that with a good treaty, "the battle for SALT is winnable given the time to prepare...
Even if Moscow's concession on MBFR turns out to be genuine, there are still a number of thorny issues to be resolved. For example, Western experts wonder whether the Warsaw Pact states will admit to having 950,000 ground troops in Central Europe. Instead, they may continue to insist that they have only 805,000 soldiers and thus are already near parity with the West. Notes a U.S. analyst involved in the Vienna talks: "We and the Soviets disagree thoroughly on manpower data. Until we get a data base agreement, there's no breakthrough." Moscow...
...other hand, NATO analysts foresee growing animosity between Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies. The study urged the U.S. to persist in seeking closer ties with Eastern Europe at Moscow's expense. But one Soviet relationship, that with Prague, seems likely to stay firm for quite some time. Czech President Gustav Husak last week actually thanked the Soviets for their "unselfish assistance" in invading his country ten years ago and toppling the liberal Dubcek regime...
...Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with no Soviet troops on its territory, were treated as special cases because of their independent foreign policies...