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...Warsaw Pact as solid as it seems? As the seven members of the East bloc military alliance prepare to renew their ties, which formally expire in May, there are signs of discord simmering beneath the pact's outward unity. One such signal flashed last week when East Germany's Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland prominently reprinted remarks by a senior Hungarian official that seemed to question Moscow's right to meddle in the internal affairs of its allies...
...interview, reprinted from the Hungarian trade-union newspaper Nepszava, Deputy Foreign Minister Istvan Roska noted that there were some differences between Warsaw Pact members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
...that "we didn't want to be shown up by New Zealand," whose prime minister recently forbade U.S. Navy ships to do there if they have nuclear weapons on board. Prime Minister David R. Lange managed to provoke an international diplomatic brouhaha and effectively dissolve a three-way defense pact with Australia and the United States. Those may be ambitious results for Tomlinson and Cohn to compete with, but hey, what is Harvard all about anyway...
...nuclear-free world is even desirable. They point out that other countries, including some notably reckless ones in the Third World, could not be counted on to adhere to a nuclear-weapons ban sponsored by the superpowers. What is more, if the superpowers were released from the suicide pact of nuclear deterrence, they might be more likely to get into a conventional war. Since the knowledge of how to build nuclear weapons would still exist, it might then be only a matter of time before one or both superpowers rebuilt a nuclear arsenal. Finally, many students of the Soviet system...
...Zealand. On the list of cuts: joint military exercises, some intelligence sharing and U.S. training of New Zealand military officers. According to Lange, the cuts threatened the capacity of his country to maintain its military surveillance in the South Pacific, which in turn might affect the ANZUS defense pact...