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...addition, the contras have been stepping up the frequency and ferocity of their raids in recent weeks. There is fear of more attacks as the counterrevolutionaries try to establish permanent bases on Nicaraguan soil. "That is a terrible prospect," says the Sandinistas' Ramirez. "Already this year we have had 500 military and civilian casualties in the fighting with the contras. In the U.S. the proportional loss would be about 50,000 people...
...prestige in the area. The Soviets, however, have returned to the area with surprising speed. They replaced most of the Syrian equipment destroyed last year, and supplied the Syrian armed forces with sophisticated new weaponry. There are now 4,000 to 6,000 Soviet technicians and advisers on Syrian soil, representing an increase of some 2,000 since the war. Also, for the first time, Moscow has installed its advanced SA-5 surface-to-air missiles outside the Soviet Union. The two batteries of SA-5s, located near the Syrian towns of Dumar and Shimshar and manned by So viet...
Principled pacifism has never found fertile soil in the U.S. It remains a minority belief. In its place has grown a new pacifism, also rejecting the use of force, but on other, more American grounds. The grounds are pragmatic; the appeal is to prudence; and the theory is that force is to be abjured because, ultimately, it is futile. The new pacifism is not the practice of a crackpot cult. It represents a strongly felt, but almost invisible current of contemporary American thought. Invisible, because its most serious manifestation is not the antinuclear movement, which is neither particularly...
Enter the U.S. Western European leaders believe that the military power of American remains the only check on an alleged Soviet drive for world hegemony. By encouraging the United States to station missiles on their soil, they accomplish three interrelated goals first, a supposedly greater deterrent; second, the money saved by not increasing their forces as much as they had planned; and third, the absolute assurance that any conflict in Europe will involve U.S. nuclear weapons. This is the ultimate deterrent, because after deployment the nuclear East Coast of the United States will be the West German border. America will...
Andropoy himself raised the German issue last week when he made his latest proposal for a separate balance of Soviet INF warheads and the corresponding British French warheads Before making this proposal, he declared "..FRG statesmen have repeatedly expressed agreement that war should never again be unleashed from German soil. How can this be squared with support for the plans to deploy American missiles on West German soil...