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...shout, "Comrade Brezhnev, cannons are useless, revolution is made by the masses!" Many of the placards at Rome's big Oct. 24 rally carried the rhyming couplet, Dalla Sicilia alia Scandinavia, no alia NATO e al patto di Varsavia (From Sicily to Scandinavia, no to NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...Europe continued to fear that the U.S. might leave it in the lurch. The worry even has a term in the NATO strategic lexicon: decoupling. Europe's anxieties grew in 1977 when the Carter Administration began the SALT II negotiations with Moscow. The resulting pact did not cover the SS-20 missiles. To counter these weapons, President Carter proposed stationing a new generation of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe, while proceeding with arms limitation talks. The offer was readily accepted by the Europeans, including West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. That acceptance has come home to roost...
Keeping open the option of first use has been justified, and indeed required, by the U.S.S.R.'s geographical proximity to Western Europe and the Warsaw Pact's considerable advantage over NATO in manpower and non-nuclear armaments. The defense of Western Europe has depended on the threat that conventional Soviet attack could provoke an American nuclear response...
...sustained buildup in conventional forces. The Western democracies will probably never be able to match the Soviet bloc in conscripted military, but by substantially narrowing the gap, NATO might some day be able to deter the armored legions of the Warsaw Pact without having to rely quite so much on the threat of using the nuclear equalizer. With the viability of nuclear deterrence against nonnuclear aggression already in doubt, the less that concept is belabored, the better...
...will point to the overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...