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While the two superpowers were exchanging salvos, the leaders of 15 NATO nations were in Washington to talk about rapidly growing Soviet military forces. To offset the threat to Western Europe, the NATO summit gave final approval to a 15-year program that will substantially increase the alliance's defenses. But despite their preoccupation with Europe, the NATO leaders wound up devoting much time to Soviet moves in Africa and President Carter's call for them to support the U.S. position. Said he: "Our alliance centers on Europe, but our vigilance cannot be limited to the Continent...
...NATO summit endorsed a long-term plan to improve the alliance's defenses. Pentagon planners estimate that the program will cost between $60 billion and $80 billion, with the U.S. paying a bit more than half. Carter also reaffirmed a longstanding policy to defend Europe with atomic weapons, if necessary. Proclaimed the President: "An attack on Europe would have the full consequences of an attack on the United States. Let there be no misunderstanding, the United States is prepared to use all the forces necessary for the defense of the NATO area...
...forum to repeat his inaugural call for the "elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth." But by a coincidence, a full-scale meeting of NATO partners had been scheduled for the week following the opening of the U.N. conference. Carter is planning to argue compellingly at the NATO summit for a 3% annual increase in alliance defense spending-and he could scarcely make a credible pitch for disarmament before the General Assembly just a few days earlier...
Gromyko may have kept a moderate tone in part to avoid provoking excessive reaction at this week's NATO summit in Washington, where the 15 members are scheduled to consider a "longterm defense program" to meet the Soviet arms threat over the next 15 years. Though some quarreling among members of the chronically troubled alliance seemed inevitable, U.S. planners were encouraged by advance pledges of support from British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who will be one of twelve heads of government attending. By ironic coincidence, the meeting's chairman will be Turkish Premier Bülent Ecevit...
Most troublesome for Carter will be his meeting with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who came not only for the U.N. meeting but also for the NATO summit and a breakfast at the White House this week. Schmidt has strongly disagreed with the President on a number of issues, including Carter's opposition to the international sale of fast-breeder nuclear reactors and Washington's inability to stabilize the dollar on world money markets. West German officials warned that despite Schmidt's warm endorsement at the U.N. of measures to control the world arms race, disarmament hardly...