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...substantial fear is that a higher defense budget would fuel inflation. Insisted Maine's Edmund Muskie in a mid-September Senate speech: "The enemy who has the capacity ... to devastate the economy?the defense budget, the Government's overall budget?is not the Soviet Union or any other enemy I can foresee...
More certain of deployment is the Pershing II nuclear missile, a $1.5 billion weapon system that occupies a gray area in analysts' calculations of the strategic balance. Because its 1,000-mile range would prevent it from hitting the Soviet Union from the U.S., the Pershing II is not, strictly speaking, a strategic weapon. But since it could strike Russia from bases in Western Europe, it is something considerably more than a tactical, battlefield nuclear device like the atomic cannon or the proposed neutron warhead...
...Kiev and Minsk are thus multipurpose warships: their principal mission seems to be antisubmarine warfare, but they and their aircraft can attack surface ships. Jane's Fighting Ships, the authoritative British guide to the world's navies, notes that possession of a carrier force gives the Soviet Union "an intervention capability in so-called peacetime." Jane's believes that no more carriers of the Kiev class will be built after the first four, but expects a new class of larger Soviet aircraft carriers to begin appearing on the high seas in the early 1980s...
Joshua Nkomo, 62, is generally regarded as the father of black nationalism in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, having risen from trade union organizer to leader of the first independence movement, in the mid-1950s. Last week the burly, jovial guerrilla leader presided over another historic turn in London, where his ZAPU party directed much of the Patriotic Front political strategy that led to the acceptance of the constitution. Shortly after his fateful meeting with Lord Carrington, Nkomo discussed the possibility of a settlement with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter. Excerpts...
...NATO member with a window overlooking the Soviet Union, Turkey is a vital component of Western defense. Thus it is of no small concern to Washington that the country continues to be plagued by endemic political instability, terrorist violence and serious economic problems. In no small measure, Turkey's fruitless search for stability can be traced to lurching shifts in leadership that involve the country's two top politicians, Bülent Ecevit, head of the Republican People's Party, and Suleyman Demirel, leader of the Justice Party. Last week, in a routine that has now become...