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...baggage) was the key question of a Soviet withdrawal of forces from East Germany. De Gaulle clearly would like to see such a first step toward the dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest. If so, the seeds of cold war disengagement that Charles de Gaulle planted along his triumphal 6,200-mile march through Russia...
Galling Years. But can the U.S. safely pull out of Europe now or in the future? Obviously not now, or at least not all at once. The pullback becomes a matter of pace-De Gaulle notwithstanding. Basic American policy remains firmly rooted in the strength of the Atlantic Alliance and NATO, France or no. The shibboleths of the past still permeate American policy. Under Secretary of State George Ball presents the hardline position of the State Department's "theologians" in terms right out of the deep freeze...
...Wisconsin, former Democratic National Committeeman David Carley is trying to overtake front-running Lieutenant Governor Patrick Lucey for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by demanding an immediate cease-fire and a U.S. pullback to coastal enclaves...
...divisions in East Germany; certainly some could be called back, but to withdraw all of them suddenly would probably cause the regime of Walter Ulbricht to collapse. Poland still has three Soviet divisions, but the Russians remain unobtrusive, and Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka paranoically fears that a Russian pullback would encourage German encroachment on the Oder-Neisse line. Only Hungary's Janos Kadar could profit from the removal of the four or five Russian divisions still in his country: they serve as a constant reminder of Moscow's brutal role in repressing the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Bulgaria...
...week about the new Soviet diplomatic offensive were not the Western Europeans but rather the Eastern Europeans. The reason was not at all flattering to the Russians. The main thing that the people of the East saw in a relaxation of tensions between East and West was a mutual pullback of U.S. and Soviet troops from Central Europe that would rid their countries for the first time in 21 years of the unwanted presence of the Red army...