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...such reassuring noises are misleading. The replies to more precise questions reveal the shocking degree to which the alliance is confronting a potentially disastrous change in public opinion. According to a London Observer poll, 53% of Britons would now like to see the U.S. withdraw its bases from their country. Other surveys show that higher defense spending?which the U.S. has asked of NATO allies?is favored by only one-third of Britons, 15% of West Germans and fewer than 10% of Belgians and Dutch. Opposition to the new U.S. missiles in the countries where deployment is planned ranges from...
...Soviet missile arsenal grew, Europeans became concerned that the U.S. would not use nuclear weapons to defend the Continent because of a fear that Moscow would respond by attacking American cities. For some of the allies, the uncertainty grew stronger after Washington's 1963 decision to withdraw 90 intermediate-range Jupiter and Thor missiles from Europe on grounds that the weapons were obsolete. Doubts like these led Charles de Gaulle in 1966 to pull France out of NATO's military organization (although not the alliance) and organize its own nuclear retaliatory force, la force defrappe...
...problem of the press has been very much on the President's mind of late. At Haig's urging, Reagan even telephoned Columnist Jack Anderson from Camp David to persuade him to withdraw a report that the Secretary of State had "one foot on a banana peel." At times Reagan denied there was dissension in his Administration ("Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as an unnamed source"). But of course it was Haig himself, and not a reporter, who said Haig had been subjected to nine months of "guerrilla warfare" from inside the White House...
...commander of Libya's occupation forces in the central African nation of Chad received an urgent phone call from his government in Tripoli last week. When he hung up, he told reporters that he had received "an order" from Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, to withdraw his troops from Chad. Added the clearly shaken soldier: "We must leave immediately...
...trying to devise an enlightened policy on campus alcohol use. Disturbed by occasional incidents in which drunken students have scuffled with police or with one another, administrators feel they must do something: The Administrative Board "admonished" seven students last year for "drunk and disorderly behavior" and required one to withdraw. But divining a policy to govern less blatant cases of abuse really makes administrators squirm. At the core of the issue is the tension between the College's role as a haven for individual liberty and free expression and as a shaper of values, So it is not surprising that...