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...concern breaking up. "Summer Romance" is the apotheosis of the summer song, jumping like a convertible with tight shocks on the way to Jones Beach. "Send It to Me," a bizarre reggae tribute to Motherhood and the women of the Warsaw Pact, begins with a guitar quote from Duane Allman and rollicks right along, like "Summer Romance," in the general from of what might be called "good time music." But it's not--it's bad time music trying to put the best face on things, with the unmistakable note of a man trying to convince himself. The horror resurfaces...
...club to beat the city into granting hefty wage hikes. Young, who came out of the same tough "Black Bottom" ghetto that produced Joe Louis and was once an organizer for the United Auto Workers, bargained hard but at week's end settled for a draw. A new pact gave the workers less than they had asked but more than the mayor had offered?despite Young's repeated plea that "I ain't got no more goddam money...
...Frustrated by a six-year-old East-West diplomatic standoff over Afghanistan, the jittery post-Brezhnev leadership in Moscow sends ten Warsaw Pact tank divisions rumbling across the border into West Germany. Pushing back the outnumbered NATO forces, the invaders head for the French border. As the attacking army crosses the Rhine, the French President orders the use of tactical neutron bombs to protect his country's "territorial independence." In response, a Soviet-made SS-20 missile, armed with three nuclear warheads, rises from its silo in Poland and speeds toward Paris...
Chilling scenarios like the one above underlie an urgent nuclear debate that is now taking place within the Atlantic Alliance in the face of the Soviet Union's alarming military buildup in Eastern Europe. Backing up its overwhelming superiority in conventional forces, the Warsaw Pact has also attained a 7-to-l edge over NATO in intermediate-range missiles; new Soviet-made SS-20s are being deployed at the dizzying rate of one every five days. Last December NATO agreed to install 572 U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe to offset the Soviet advantage...
Experts may disagree on whether the U.S. still has that strength, but the statistics are not cheering. Against the Warsaw Pact's 1,140,000 troops, NATO has 975,000, of whom 300,000 are American; against the East's 20,000 tanks, the West has 7,000, of which 2,000 are American...