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...imbalance. Although Moscow loudly claims that the new NATO missiles would give the West a perilous "strategic advantage," NATO planners, as well as the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, estimate that they would at best achieve nuclear parity on the Continent. In conventional weapons, Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies have a decided superiority...
...Moscow airport to welcome South Yemen's President), made ample use of both when he first launched the Soviet pitch in East Berlin on Oct. 6. On the one hand, he warned that if NATO carried out its ''dangerous'' plan, the Warsaw Pact would have to ''take necessary extra steps''-meaning an additional arms build-up of its own. On the other hand, he renewed Moscow's proposal for a Continental disarmament conference to promote further ''military detente in Europe.'' As the most tempting carrot...
Tonight, in a very special way, I hold out my hands to the youth of America. In Mexico City and Guadelajara I met the youth of Latin America. In Warsaw and Cracow I met the youth of Poland. In Rome I meet frequently groups of young people from Italy and from all over the world. Yesterday I met the youth of Ireland in Galway. And now with great joy I meet you. For me, each one of these meetings is a new discovery. Again and again I find in young people the joy and enthusiasm of life, a searching...
Kissinger's warning was echoed two days later, when the West German government issued a White Paper on European defense. It argued that the strength of the Warsaw Pact's conventional forces, compared with NATO'S, is continuing to expand, and that there is a "growing disparity" between the Soviet deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons not covered by the proposed SALT II treaty and the laggard Western development of comparable arms. The White Paper declared further that the Warsaw Pact armies appear to be geared primarily for attack rather than defense...
...equally worrisome assessment came from London, where the authoritative International Institute for Strategic Studies, taking annual stock of the global "military balance," declared that the Soviets' "impressive" all-round modernization not only gives the Warsaw Pact the edge over NATO in a prolonged ground war but also poses a direct threat to America's own intercontinental missile systems. "It will be eight to ten years before the United States could again restore a degree of invulnerability to their land-based deterrent forces," the IISS concluded...