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Ever since NATO was founded in 1949, the U.S. has held open the "first-use" option of employing nuclear weapons to repel a conventional Soviet attack in Europe, because the Warsaw Pact countries enjoy a considerable advantage over the West in total numbers of ground troops and tanks. Indeed, jittery Western Europeans urged the Truman Administration to adopt the first-use policy, and it has lasted for more than three decades with the full agreement of the alliance...
...strike." The day before the McNamara press conference, Haig in a Washington speech derided the no-first-use policy as "tantamount to making Europe safe for conventional aggression." If NATO did renounce that option, the Secretary said, the alliance would have to match the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact countries. To do that, the U.S. would have to "reintroduce the draft, triple the size of its armed forces and put its economy on a wartime footing." In scuttling the strategy of flexible response, the Secretary charged, the U.S. would be curbing its commitment to Europe...
...seven Ivy League schools, according to a longstanding pact, launched their notification letters through U.S. mail at 1201 a.m. on the 15th and then imposed a moratorium until the morning of the 19th, by which time most applicants should have learned their fates...
...given during hospitalization for an accident. Eventually, he was doing a couple of grams a day and suffering from paranoia, roller-coaster mood swings and an inability to work. "I lived my whole life for cocaine," he recalls. Tom, too, went to the clinic and made a pact. A diehard Republican, he could think of no penance worse than forking over $1,000 to Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. A year ago he agreed that a check should be mailed if he resumed his habit. Ted Kennedy will have to find that money elsewhere. Tom is clean. Says...
...first. One is that America's principal allies, whom it is sworn to defend, are separated by oceans from the U.S., are uncomfortably close to the U.S.S.R. and are reluctant to bear their share of their own defenses. The other factor is that the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact are numerically superior to those of NATO. Thus the U.S., in its role as protector of Western Europe and Japan, has fallen back on its nuclear weapons as an equalizer for its disadvantages in geography, conventional forces and manpower...