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...announcing the Trident deal to the House of Commons, Defense Secretary Francis Pym explained the government's politico-military rationale. "We need to convince Soviet leaders," he said, "that even if they thought at some critical point, as a conflict developed, that the U.S. would hold back, the British force could still inflict a blow so destructive that the penalty for aggression would have proved too high." Britain will be nearly tripling its nuclear striking power, from 192 war heads mounted on 2,880-mile-range Polaris missiles bought from the U.S. 17 years ago, to 512 independently targetable...
...French decision to upgrade its force de frappe. "Independently of whatever the French doctrine may be," notes Gregory Flynn, a U.S. strategic expert at the Paris-based Atlantic Institute, "the existence of a French nuclear force is an additional factor of uncertainty for the Soviets." British Defense Secretary Francis Pym justifies the nuclear modernization policy on the same grounds: "Whereas [the Thatcher] government has absolute confidence in the U.S. commitment to Europe . . . a NATO defense containing these powerful independent elements is a harder one to predict and a more dangerous one to assail...
...Carter had urged that foreign ministers also attend in order to signal the West's growing alarm at Moscow's military adventurism. In the course of 36 hectic hours in Brussels, Muskie emphasized Washington's determination to meet the Soviet challenge. Said British Defense Minister Francis Pym: "Muskie repeated the U.S commitment to Europe in the strongest terms I have ever heard...
Into this quiet, ordinary situation Pym works the subtlest of nuances, endowing her characters with quiet dignity and endearing quirks. Norman is sarcastic, but he always stops just short of abrasion. Edwin, a large, docile widower, is so bland as to be almost invisible; he fills his mouth with candies and his hours with a ceaseless round of churchgoing...
...reunion that Pym unobtrusively begins to peel the layers from her characters. Arriving at the office, Letty notices that the two men have spread themselves out, occupying the space that once held all four. She experiences again "the feeling of nothingness... as if she and Marcia had never existed." But her attention quickly shifts. "Looking around the room, her eyes lighted on a spider plant which she had brought one day and not bothered to take away when she left. It had proliferated; many little offshoots were now hanging down until they dangled over the radiator." Perceptions noted, then brushed...