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...this, McCaw called Air Force General Curtis LeMay's office and was directed by a confused secretary to the meeting at the White House. According to Salinger, Brigadier General Chester ("Ted") Clifton, President Kennedy's military aide, escorted McCaw to a darkened room where slides of Soviet troop concentrations were being shown. When the lights were turned on, McCaw was astonished to find the President there -and the generals were even more shocked to see McCaw. To ensure security, they considered recalling him to active Air Force duty, but finally accepted his pledge of total secrecy...
There was some movement on the issues of troop reduction and arms limitation because the Soviets had relaxed their positions. Does this mean that the Kremlin is genuinely seeking better relations with the West? Certainly the Russians have enough reasons to do so. With the recent slight thaw in Sino-American relations, Moscow is worried anew that a Washington-Peking rapprochement may threaten its interests; force reductions in Europe would allow the Soviets to move more troops to the Chinese border. Another factor, which Brezhnev stressed to visiting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau two weeks ago, is the economic drain...
Just as the first round of SALT was little more than a formal probing, so any early meetings on troop reductions will probably be concerned with working out a common vocabulary, or "dictionary," in the parlance of negotiators. Once that is done, the actual negotiations would have to encompass specific questions not only of manpower, but also weaponry, the balance of foreign and national forces and the scope of defense budgets. With luck, the first probings could begin this summer, preliminary negotiations by fall and perhaps substantive negotiations some time...
...Obviously, the thing will have to be renamed. Dropping "Mutual" could yield BALFORE, which is not ideal but has a certain statesmanlike ring. Rearranging the words to make it "Balanced and Mutual," etc., could lead to BAM, for short. One could even start talking about a proposed Treaty on Troop Reductions, or TROT, for the headline writers...
...designed to combat West German inflation, upset other members of the Six and helped persuade Pompidou that some counterweight to German power was needed. Another favorable development was the U.S. Senate's defeat of the Mansfield resolution, which alarmed Europeans by calling for a 50% cut in American troop strength on the Continent by year's end. The Senate's action buttressed European hopes that NATO will be in a strong bargaining position in any future talks with the Warsaw Pact on balanced, mutual troop reductions in Central Europe. But whatever the outcome of such negotiations, most...