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Resuming full-scale shipments of arms to Turkey will strengthen NATO's southern flank. Almost twice the size of California, with a population of about 42 million, Turkey shares a 370-mile border with the Soviet Union. The 500,000-man Turkish armed forces are deservedly renowned for their ferocity. With more than 300 warplanes and nearly 3,000 tanks, they help tie down about 26 divisions of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, which otherwise might be deployed against NATO forces in Central Europe. Its location enables Turkey to monitor Soviet warships, including submarines, passing from the Black...
...reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers." But the most important, said Népszabadság, was that knowing the Bible "can in fact strengthen official ideology." The editorial did not explain how, but its author's own scriptural wanderings presumably had not included Psalm 14, which begins: "The fool hath said in his heart, there...
...Since then, Carter and Schmidt have wrangled over nuclear non-proliferation policy (the Germans want to sell fuel-reprocessing plants), Washington's public crusade on human rights (the Germans think it's preachy and unsophisticated) and economic policy (the Germans think Washington must cut oil imports to strengthen the dollar). Only last week, when asked about his relations with Carter in a television show, the theatrical Schmidt sighed, lifted an eyebrow and paused-gestures clearly belying his answer: "They are very good." When Carter claimed on the eve of his trip that his schedule would not permit...
Despite the distractions of Africa, the conference devoted a considerable amount of its discussions to the Soviet Union's rapid military buildup. According to a NATO study, the U.S.S.R. will continue to strengthen its forces during the 1980s...
Jimmy Carter's Republican predecessors also sought to strengthen ties with Eastern Europe, but they did so more cautiously and selectively, and never during a period of unusual tension in U.S.-Soviet relations. Henry Kissinger carefully synchronized his Eastern European diplomacy with the Soviet connection. He was concerned that separate overtures to Eastern Europe might provoke the Kremlin into tightening its control over the region. For that reason, Richard Nixon made the first visit by a U.S. President to Warsaw on the way home from the Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route...