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...compromise on the issue of nuclear missiles in Europe, they have made slight changes in their bargaining position at the Geneva talks on strategic arms reduction. Though a final agreement is still a long way off, Soviet negotiators have dropped their demand that the U.S. limit the deployment of Trident submarines and Trident II missiles. The Soviets have also stopped insisting that the U.S. restrict the range of cruise missiles launched from bombers...
...millions of jobs." Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom. She made it equally plain that a new Thatcher government would stand by its commitment to improve Britain's nuclear deter rent by buying U.S.-built, submarine-launched Trident missiles and would continue to support the planned deployment of U.S. cruise missiles at the British bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth...
...Labor campaign is a five-year crash program to create 2.5 million new jobs, mainly by diverting some $17 billion now spent on unemployment benefits and tax-revenue losses. Other savings, according to the Labor platform, would come from scrapping the Thatcher government's planned $15 billion Trident missile program...
Kent is opposed to the cruise missiles because "their accuracy is high and their destabilizing effect on arms agreement is very great." He also contends that the Trident missiles that Britain is obtaining from the U.S. for its submarines "take us to the edge of fear of first strike." Kent wants Britain to get rid of both its nuclear weapons and the U.S. bases, no matter what the U.S.S.R. does in terms of its nuclear weapons. Says he: "We are not waiting for the Soviets to reciprocate." As to which superpower had made the most constructive proposals in the current...
...sharply drawn issue is defense. Although Labor's campaign manifesto carefully fudged its position to accommodate the strong internal differences, the party is on record as being opposed to the deployment of 160 U.S. cruise missiles. It also opposes the government's plans to purchase some 80 Trident submarine missiles from the U.S. Instead, Labor advocates a unilateral ban on all nuclear weapons in Britain. The party's candidates will undoubtedly get a strong boost from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which has vowed to field an army of volunteers to help elect M.P.s who endorse antinuclear...