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...Soviet challenge. The result is a thick document called A.D. 70 (for Alliance Defense, 1970). It concluded that NATO possesses "adequate nuclear forces," but that its conventional military strength "is less satisfactory"-quite an understatement in view of the Warsaw Pact's 2-to-l edge in troop strength. The report recommended and the members unanimously approved: > Concrete hangars for NATO aircraft. Having watched the destruction of Egypt's air force by Israel during the Six-Day War, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact forces are anxious to cover their own fighter-bombers...
...quick to show its gratitude. Laird pledged to seek a substantial increase in the U.S. defense budget for fiscal 1972-perhaps as much as $3 billion-part of which would benefit NATO. Perhaps more important, he promised that the U.S. would not reduce its present 285,000-man troop level before the summer of 1972. To underscore that pledge, Secretary of State William Rogers read a message from President Nixon promising that no pullout will occur even after that date "unless there is reciprocal action from our adversaries...
Treating Rat Bites. However unconventional they may be in dress and tone, the Stoners do not entirely rule out the traditional. Their Scoutmasters -mostly young Viet Nam veterans-do instruct them in camping and field survival. This month the troop will journey to Camp Alpine, N.J., to hike, camp and cook out. But it is still the allure of survival in the city that seems most attractive to the Stoners. "I dig the Stoners because they teach us how to live in the city," says Ricardo Reed, 14. "They teach us how to treat rat bites and stuff like that...
...European capitals as well, Soviet diplomats are seeking out their Western counterparts for private chats to deliver a similar assessment. The Nixon Administration has made some sensible and overdue adjustments of U.S. foreign commitments. But in Moscow's view, the scale-down in South Viet Nam, the troop withdrawals from South Korea, the return of Okinawa to Japan are all indications of growing American isolationism and decline. Accordingly, the Russians are making every effort to convince Western Europeans that Washington is no longer a reliable ally...
...Western Europeans will be pleased with the U.S. decision to retain its troop strength on the Continent-at least for the present-since East bloc forces already enjoy a 2-to-l advantage in men, tanks and planes in Europe. As NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio warned: "The Soviet Union has set itself two aims and two programs: a minimum program, which is the ratification of the status quo in Europe; a maximum program, which would be the establishment of a pan-European security system that would exclude North American countries from Europe...