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That is precisely the kind of devastating war that Continental leaders have always sought to avoid with the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella. Seven successive U.S. Presidents, including Jimmy Carter, have emphatically guaranteed that protection. Yet the widely perceived weakness of the present American leadership and the decline of U.S. nuclear superiority have again raised the unsettling question in Europe: Would Washington ever risk Chicago or New York for London or Paris? European worries about America's lack of commitment are surely exaggerated. Nonetheless, many defense experts on the Continent were duly impressed by Henry Kissinger...
...talks-if and when they get under way. Paris and London have given prior warning that they will not put their missiles on the bargaining table at SALT III. If this position holds, U.S. missiles might have to be traded off in their place, further weakening the American umbrella and driving a potential wedge between the U.S. and its allies. That would be an unfortunate and ironic result of Europe's search for a credible deterrent...
...Parisienne. In a reverse striptease, a comely Victorian lass in black stockings and garter belt dresses up in corset and crinoline for a grand occasion orchestrated by Strauss. The star of the show, callipygian Linda Bardot, clad mostly in a pearly headdress, twirls around under a filigreed umbrella, mouthing in puffick Cockney Oi'm Aownly aye Bird in aye Gilded Cayge. Between and after the twice-nightly shows, the place becomes a disco where the windows vibrate past midnight...
...summoned to Moscow in 1935 for training as an agent of the Comintern, the international Communist umbrella organization founded in 1919; but he ignored a call to return there in 1937, when Stalin's bloodthirsty purges were at their height. This may have saved his life. He later said: "When I went to Moscow, I never knew whether I would come back alive." In 1939 the Comintern confirmed him as general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...boycott or other economic sanctions will require a unanimous agreement, a fact of Community life that in the past has stymied bold initiatives. As before, the French seem to be the main obstacle. While the European allies would all greatly prefer to act under the Community's umbrella, some appear to be edging toward taking tough measures unilaterally to back the U.S. Bonn and the powerful West German business community now favor economic moves against Iran that they once opposed. Said Otto Wolff von Amerongen, president of the West German Chambers of Industry and Commerce: "The time has now come...