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...East Germany. Mr. Kladko's poor reading habits could have been excused if he had bothered to look at a map, which would have shown him that Dresdon's position, "98 miles south of Berlin" as he says place it close to the Czech border, deep in Warsaw Pact territory Although a ceremony at Dresden recognizing the alliances between the United Germany, and East Germany would be welcome. I don't think we can expect it to happen in this decade...
Three days later, at a meeting of Warsaw Pact leaders in the Polish capital, Gorbachev warned that continued U.S. foot dragging on placing Star Wars technology on the bargaining table could result in a new Soviet buildup. "If preparations for SDI continue," said the Soviet leader, "we will have no other choice than to undertake countermoves including, of course, the strengthening and upgrading of nuclear arms." He also went public with an arms-reduction offer that had been privately broached by Soviet negotiators --and rejected by American ones--in Geneva. He said the Soviet Union would be ready to slash...
...eventually may be cut back rose a bit last week. Representatives of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica, meeting in Panama, agreed to set up a commission to monitor the arms-reduction provisions of a regional treaty that they are trying to negotiate. But until an enforceable pact is in effect--if ever...
According to Blackwill, the negotiations are aimed at reducing both NATO and Warsaw Pact military forces to a "common ceiling" of 700,000 ground troops each. However, this cap would require vastly larger cuts in Soviet-bloc troops, which outnumber NATO troops by several hundred thousand...
DIED. John Michael Geoffrey Manningham ("Tom") Adams, 53, Prime Minister since 1976 of Barbados (pop. 300,000), one of the most democratically stable of the Caribbean's microstates; of a heart attack; in Bridgetown, Barbados. Adams was an architect of the eight-nation, 2 1/2-year-old Eastern Caribbean Regional Security Pact and played a large consultative role among Caribbean leaders and the Reagan Administration in the U.S. decision to invade neighboring Grenada in October...