Word: willingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most important measures concern strategic arms, even though such weapons systems take only 7% of the defense budget. As Jones put it, "The strategic balance sets the tone for what goes on in the rest of the world." The Administration has just taken an important step in this area...
Moscow has recently expanded its own arsenal of similar weapons. In the past year the Soviets have stationed in Eastern Europe an estimated 100 atomic-tipped, multiwarhead SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles and about 90 supersonic Backfire bombers. These could strike all Western European countries. Warned Henry Kissinger at...
(6 of 12) mid-December meeting of NATO, several countries will agree to accept the Pershing II.
So hard up for cash is the corps that it is reluctantly planning to shrink itself. Through attrition, it will drop to 179,000 by mid-1980, a reduction of 10,000. Says a senior Marine officer: "We are reducing manpower to pay our bills. There is no sense in...
The Air Force wants more transport aircraft, but has not yet decided how many. Also needed are additional tankers for airborne refueling of transport and combat planes. In fiscal 1980 the Air Force will be buying four KC-10 tankers, a version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, at...