Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACTUAL THREAT to Europe has not only been magnified, it has also been blurred by the government's frequent use of falsehood as a basis of foreign policy. We hear, for example, that Soviet SS-20 missiles pointed westward are a grave and imminent threat, and that hundreds of new Pershing II missiles must immediately be deployed to offset the SS-20s. Even by the logic of the arms race--if such a thing can be said to exist--the current provocative stance of the U.S. government is absurd...
...countries menaced by the SS-20s. "To include aircraft [in the missile bargaining], as Mr. Gromyko suggests, would divert attention from the most threatening and destabilizing systems and complicate the negotiations." And SS-20s stationed in Asia must be included because these highly mobile missiles could easily be shifted westward and retargeted on Western Europe in a crisis. The statement concluded: "The Soviet Union owes the world a more positive response...
...oscillation's major effects is a reduction of the trade winds that sweep the Pacific's warm equatorial waters westward. As a result, some of the water flows south toward the South American coast, rising over and blocking the cold Humboldt waters from the Antarctic. This is how El Niño is born. But the oscillation also appears to tweak the Northern Hemisphere's weather as well. This year the increased west-to-east jet stream, which usually diminishes during winter, has raised sea levels 8 in. above normal and brought huge amounts of precipitation...
...which nevertheless remain deployed and are under negotiation in Geneva. The Soviets have deployed some 340 SS-20s in the past six years-a rate of more than one a week-scattered over 38 sites. Two-thirds are west of the Ural Mountains, pointing westward with at most a 20-min. flight to West Germany. Sums up a Bonn defense official: "There is no Soviet weapons system in its class that comes close to matching the SS-20." A compatriot in the Foreign Ministry agrees. "The SS-20," he says, "is a unique threat...
...everything to do with a shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down 49 Soviet divisions, some of which might otherwise be redeployed westward to threaten Europe or the Persian Gulf. Western calculations about the future have been haunted by the fear that...