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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The communique called on the Soviet Union to enter into negotiations on the reduction of medium-range weapons as soon as possible. It also made a limited unilateral offer: to withdraw "as soon as feasible" 1,000 of the 7,000 U.S. war heads presently positioned in Europe, most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: A Damned Near-Run Thing | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

During the six-hour session, the West Germans were openly impatient with the Dutch and the Belgians on the missile question. Said Bonn's Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We Germans realize you have political difficulties. But two out of three of the new rockets will be based on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: A Damned Near-Run Thing | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

It also seems certain that those arms talks will be markedly different from the SALT I and II negotiations of the past. In those decade-long proceedings, Europe was always excluded, and Europeans felt that their own security was being settled over their heads and perhaps even bargained away. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: A Damned Near-Run Thing | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

When Speaker James Jerome ordered the "vote on division" at 9:50 p.m., the packed public gallery in Canada's House of Commons stirred with excitement. The balloting took only eleven minutes. When it was over, the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, just 6½ months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Casual Joe Takes a Fall | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The soldiers saw widespread hunger. Corpses of those who had died from starvation were a common sight along the roads, and children sometimes came to beg food from the Vietnamese soldiers, who occasionally threw them scraps. All three deserters were adamant in testifying they had seen no food from international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Colonization | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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