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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fifty-Fifty Plan...
...admits a Carter aide, they found the President had more things he could do-more power-than he had believed. The process fed on itself. Confidence and enthusiasm grew. Iranian oil imports were ended, assets were frozen, allies badgered, the U.N. pressured, a fleet moved. Two weeks ago, the plan to get observers in to see the hostages evolved and step by step the pressure of opinion and appeal was orchestrated. The White House kept trying and finally found another haven for the Shah. There will be new twists and turns in this sad drama, but at the moment there...
...Soviet Union was swift to react angrily against NATO's missile decision. Calling it the product of "crude pressure" by the U.S. against its allies, TASS declared that the plan was "dangerous to the cause of peace and to international detente." NATO planners paid little attention, convinced as they are that the present strategic balance in Europe favors the Warsaw Pact to a greater extent than ever before. They believe the new Western missiles will significantly strengthen the alliance and will, at the least, give it an important new bargaining chip in any fu ture arms negotiations with...
Specifically, the plan reinforces NATO's defenses with 108 new Pershing II missiles and 464 ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) starting in 1983. Both are extremely accurate. The Pershing II, to be placed in West Germany alone, is a mobile missile with a range of about 1,000 miles (vs. 450 miles for the Pershing 1 A, which the new weapons will replace). The GLCM (or "glickum," in Pentagon jargon), to be deployed in Britain, West Germany and Italy, and later, perhaps, in Belgium and The Netherlands, is a dry-land version of the U.S. Navy's Tomahawk...
...British, West German and Italian governments. But it also contributed to the uncertainty of some of the smaller members of NATO, notably The Netherlands and Belgium. The opposition socialist parties in The Netherlands managed to collect enough support to put the Dutch Parliament on record as opposing the missile plan. Caught in a domestic political dilemma, Premier Andreas van Agt dashed off to Washington, Rome, London and Bonn in search of a compromise...