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...word to all our branches to send a supporting statement for the Bonn position, which we will deliver to the Bonn mission at the United Nations. We're calling for the abolition of all short-range nuclear weapons, East and West, and we're also proposing reduction of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces, both nuclear and conventional, to 50% of NATO's present strength. That is a first step to a united and disarmed Europe. I'll be going to Brussels myself, joining European members of the peace movement...
Peacenik William Sloane Coffin suggests that now is the time to end the arms race and start dismantling NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...even if an agreement on conventional parity does come off, we need to know the nature of the forces that would be left. The tank-production anomaly, for instance, indicates that we'd face a leaner but meaner Warsaw Pact force when all is said and done...
...which would probably cause the continental nations to again wonder if their allies would use these weapons if it became necessary. Also, the Soviets have a superior air-defense capability, and the alliance has relatively few airfields. It is therefore possible that in the Soviet military's mind, the Warsaw Pact could suppress a nuclear strike from NATO aircraft and thus lower the cost factor sufficiently so that they might conclude they could win a war in Europe that would be worth winning. That's why having nuclear missiles in Europe is essential to the overall...
...establishment of formal diplomatic relations between Warsaw and the Vatican is expected to come next. That would be the first such link between the Holy See and a Soviet bloc government. It would also provide a capstone to a campaign for mutual recognition dear to the heart of Pope John Paul II, the only Polish-born Pontiff in church history...