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...earlier agreed to withdraw 72 F-16 fighters from Torrejon Air Base outside Madrid, and will probably abandon the base. Under the new pact, Spain is giving up all the guarantees of specific levels of U.S. aid contained in previous bases agreements. Last year military aid alone came to $400 million...
...integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says a senior U.S. commander, "make our job of deterrence more difficult and make Congress less willing to vote funds...
...come to terms with the "military reality that you must tie your base structure to what you need for long-range mobility." What the U.S. needs for that mobility continues to be an array of overseas bases in roughly their present configuration. That makes the precedent set at Torrejon all the more worrisome...
Throughout 18 months of negotiations, Washington kept sweetening the pot, offering to reduce its fighter fleet at Spain's Torrejon Air Base outside Madrid first by 10%, and later by 20%. Each time, Spanish negotiators countered with a demand for complete withdrawal. Last week the U.S. blinked, announcing that 72 F-16 fighters will be pulled out of Spain by 1991 at the latest...
...issue are three air bases, a naval station and other facilities maintained by 12,000 American troops. Of special concern is the Torrejon air base outside Madrid, which houses 72 F-16 fighters assigned to help protect NATO's southern and central flanks. The Spanish want all the F-16s redeployed to some other country. The U.S. has offered to remove one-third of them. Concluded a European diplomat: "The two sides are at a dead...