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...intention to deploy at least some missiles to counter the SS-20 sneaks by in a glancing reference. The Soviets' ridiculous opening proposal, in which they offered to participate in creation of a "nuclear-free Europe" (thereby leaving the Europeans at the political and military mercy of vastly superior Warsaw Pact conventional armies), is not ridiculed nearly as harshly as the West's "zero option...
...Eastern Europe by U.S. AW ACS radar planes. Under Secretary of Defense Antonios Drosoyannis called it "one of the most advantageous deals that Greece has gotten out of its alliance with NATO." That was surprising, since Papandreou has often declared that his country faces no threat from the Warsaw Pact. One clue to the inconsistency is that Turkey has already joined the AW ACS program, so Greece evidently did not want to be outdone by its neighbor and traditional enemy...
Instead of blocking talks between East and West Germany [WORLD, Sept. 17], the Soviets should realize that Germany is the flash point between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. Were Germany reunified as a neutral country and barred, like Japan, from building offensive forces, it would join Sweden, Austria and Yugoslavia as a buffer between the two groups. Both superpowers could then reduce their missiles and occupying armies...
BORDER CROSSINGS and check-points punctuated the 24-hour Paris to Warsaw train ride. The car had filled up in West Germany with Polish families returning from visits with relatives. Following tearful good-byes, lively conversation picked up in my compartment. Passengers fussed with overstuffed suitcases, fearful that they might burst open. Each family brought several large pieces of luggage stuffed with clothes and food. Cartons of orange juice spilled out of the purse of the young woman sitting next to me. I asked about the many parcels. "We have nothing," a Polish woman explained...
Reminders of German mistreatment of the Poles are not hard to find in a country which still bears the scars of World War II. The reconstucted old city in Warsaw has a Disney World atmosphere as hundreds of tourists throng the central squares. Most of the surrounding building facades look freshly painted and solid. They stand in contrast to the two or three decaying cracked portals which survived the war as more than rubble...