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...Soviet buildup in conventional weapons has been equally significant. Although Brezhnev says that "the forces of either side in sum total approximately equal each other," NATO remains outgunned and outmanned by the Warsaw Pact in the strategically crucial central and northern European regions. This remains true despite the West's recent program to upgrade its forces. Facing NATO'S 7,000 tanks and 2,700 artillery pieces, for example, are 21,000 and 10,000, respectively, for the East. In manpower NATO is dwarfed 626,000 vs. 943,000. Such overwhelming military superiority could tempt the Soviets to try enforcing...
...being told in reply that a reduction is possible only if the U.S.S.R. and other members of the Warsaw treaty cut down their forces to a significantly greater degree than the NATO countries. Otherwise, there will allegedly be a "Soviet military threat." And it is to the tune of these incessantly repeated allegations that military budgets are frantically growing and NATO forces in Europe are built...
...this could mean a sharp curtailment of cooperation with the Pentagon on nuclear weaponry, the backbone of Britain's strategic deterrent. And Bonn does not want to be prevented from acquiring nonnuclear cruise missiles, which it has been counting on as the most promising defense against masses of Warsaw Pact tanks...
DIED. Boleslaw Piasecki, 63, Polish Communist official and chairman of the progovernment Roman Catholic organization called PAX; of a thrombotic ailment, Buerger's disease; in Warsaw. Jailed by the Soviets in 1944, he reportedly bartered for his freedom by agreeing to establish an association of "patriotic" Catholics. Founded in 1945, PAX was scorned by many Polish Catholics (including the present Pope) as a tool of the regime designed to split the church. Its influence began to wane in the early 1960s as Warsaw and Rome started seeking an accommodation. In 1971, Piasecki was appointed a member...
Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact are bent on topping each other in men and materials. Hasn't it ever occurred to the member countries of these organizations that no one intends to attack anyone else and that the staggering amount of money squandered is a useless and criminal waste...