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...policy is not strictly neutralist, since it calls for a buildup of conventional defensive arms. If adopted by a government in Westminster, it would force NATO to consider a new defense strategy and clearly alter Britain's relationship with the U.S. An unanswered question is how it would affect Labor's chances of regaining power. Polls indicate that since last year's election, more Britons favor a nuclear freeze and fewer support cooperation with the U.S. in nuclear policy. The next elections, however, are probably still more than four years away...
Hard-liners within the Reagan Administration seized upon that request with glee. One low-level State Department cable even proclaimed that it "could lead to a significant shift from [Costa Rica's] neutralist tightrope act and push it more explicitly and publicly into the anti-Sandinista camp." Although the message did not reflect official policy, once leaked it produced an understandable outcry in Costa Rica...
...dispute over the alliance's posture toward the Soviet Union. Too many Europeans accept the caricature of a U.S. run by trigger-happy cowboys whose belligerence has provoked Soviet intransigence. Many Americans, on the other hand, consider such European notions naive and believe that together with the pacifist and neutralist demonstrations, they
Despite Western Europe's strong reaction to the accusations, there is little new in them. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in recognizing 1973 as the "year of Europe" for U.S. policy, expressed similar anxieties about an increasingly neutralist Western Europe. Eagleburger has long shared his onetime mentor's views, and has been restating them privately in recent months. His reasons for speaking out now, at a moment of relative quiet in transatlantic relations, may be as much personal as diplomatic. The Under Secretary, at 53, is widely believed to be planning to leave Government service...
DIED. Souvanna Phouma, 82, courtly former Prime Minister of Laos, whose neutralist regime was toppled by the Communist Pathet Lao in 1975; in Vientiane. Nephew of the last Laotian King under French colonial rule. Prince Souvanna became the independent nation's Prime Minister in 1956; he later failed to stem the Pathet Lao, led by his half brother Prince Souphanouvong...