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Though a member of the seven-nation Warsaw Pact, Rumania does not permit stationing of Soviet troops or nuclear weapons on its soil. Ceauşescu declared that the European countries "bear a special responsibility for peace in Europe." Kohl, however, refused to endorse the visitor's call for opening U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks to participation by other countries...
...deploy at least some missiles to counter the SS-20 sneaks by in a glancing reference. The Soviets' ridiculous opening proposal, in which they offered to participate in creation of a "nuclear-free Europe" (thereby leaving the Europeans at the political and military mercy of vastly superior Warsaw Pact conventional armies), is not ridiculed nearly as harshly as the West's "zero option...
Meanwhile, representatives of the U.A.W. and Ford worked all week toward reaching a contract settlement for that company's U.S. workers, patterned after the GM pact. Though apparently near agreement, the negotiators adjourned the talks on Friday night so they could take care of other important business-rooting for the Detroit Tigers in the World Series...
When the Sandinlatas suddenly announced last month that they would accept a draft of a non-aggression pact proposed by the Contadora group, Washington was understandably skeptical about their intentions. For at the same time, the government refused to postpone the elections to give the opposition candidates a reasonable shot at office, thus effectively scotching the application in Nicaragua of the Contadora principle of free participation of political parties in the electoral process. Nor, despite Washington's horrible policies towards the country, is there any evidence backing up Ortega's claim--repeated in a Harvard appearance last week--that Washington...
...Eastern Europe by U.S. AW ACS radar planes. Under Secretary of Defense Antonios Drosoyannis called it "one of the most advantageous deals that Greece has gotten out of its alliance with NATO." That was surprising, since Papandreou has often declared that his country faces no threat from the Warsaw Pact. One clue to the inconsistency is that Turkey has already joined the AW ACS program, so Greece evidently did not want to be outdone by its neighbor and traditional enemy...