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...East Germany. Mr. Kladko's poor reading habits could have been excused if he had bothered to look at a map, which would have shown him that Dresdon's position, "98 miles south of Berlin" as he says place it close to the Czech border, deep in Warsaw Pact territory Although a ceremony at Dresden recognizing the alliances between the United Germany, and East Germany would be welcome. I don't think we can expect it to happen in this decade...
Three days later, at a meeting of Warsaw Pact leaders in the Polish capital, Gorbachev warned that continued U.S. foot dragging on placing Star Wars technology on the bargaining table could result in a new Soviet buildup. "If preparations for SDI continue," said the Soviet leader, "we will have no other choice than to undertake countermoves including, of course, the strengthening and upgrading of nuclear arms." He also went public with an arms-reduction offer that had been privately broached by Soviet negotiators --and rejected by American ones--in Geneva. He said the Soviet Union would be ready to slash...
Like Sinclair Lewis, who employed the author as a secretary and driver during the summer of '37, Hersey had points to score. The Wall (1950) dramatized the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto. The War Lover (1959) examined the roots of violence through a self-hating American bomber pilot. The Child Buyer (1960) criticized trends in education, and The White Lotus (1965) took on racism in an allegory that made Caucasians the objects of discrimination...
...hunger for travel has inspired the major airlines to expand the number of transatlantic flights even beyond the usual summer increase. One expert puts the total at 97 more than last year. Pan Am alone is flying this summer to six additional cities: Amsterdam, Nice, Belgrade, Bucharest, Athens and Warsaw...
According to Blackwill, the negotiations are aimed at reducing both NATO and Warsaw Pact military forces to a "common ceiling" of 700,000 ground troops each. However, this cap would require vastly larger cuts in Soviet-bloc troops, which outnumber NATO troops by several hundred thousand...