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With the easing of tensions between the superpowers and the expansion of democracy, it is clearly time for prudent bilateral reductions in defense spending. President Bush's proposed troop reductions in Europe are one such example...
With each passing day, this vision of the apocalypse becomes more archaic. The Kremlin's allies, if they can still be called that, are not only abandoning communism; they are demanding the removal of Soviet troops. A delegation from Moscow was in Hungary last week and will be in Czechoslovakia this week to discuss a specific timetable, possibly before the end of the year. The Soviets told the Poles that they are prepared to talk about troop reductions there. Torn by internal dissent and economic failure, the Soviet Union is in the process of unilaterally reducing its army...
Assuming further negotiated cuts in Europe, the U.S. will have either a far smaller force in Europe or none at all. Pentagon planners sensibly insist that initial U.S. troop and weapons cuts be reversible, so that American forces could return quickly in the unlikely event of a hostile Soviet move. "We need at least another year to determine whether the Soviet conventional restructuring is irreversible," argues James Blackwell, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers...
Meanwhile, 20 American diplomats expelled by Nicaragua in retaliation for a U.S. troop search of the residence of that country's ambassador to Panama left Managua on Monday night...