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There were indications at a high-level NATO meeting last week that the tempo of the pact's modernization program might quicken the spending increase. France and Britain are updating their own small nuclear forces. Europe has also strengthened the alliance by defying Soviet protests and allowing the U.S. to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in some countries. To bolster NATO even more, the U.S. is asking its friends to assume further responsibility for their own defense, thereby freeing American forces for duty in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...
...maneuvering was set in motion on March 22, when Carter met with high-level advisers at Camp David. They concluded that Americans were losing patience with the stalemate over the 53 hostages and that this was jeopardizing the President's political future. Accordingly, Carter three days later sent a message to Banisadr through Marcus Kaiser, the Swiss charge in Tehran: Unless the Revolutionary Council took custody of the hostages by March 31the day before the Kansas and Wisconsin primariesthe U.S. would impose sanctions on Iran. Soon afterward, the governments of major European nations and Japan...
...White House officials, Villalón was acting on his own in drafting the purported message from Carter to Khomeini, though a senior civil servant in Iran insisted that Villalón did it at the White House's request. (The day of Powell's denial, a high-level member of Carter's National Security Council said that some elements in the Villalón message were "familiar.") In any event, Villalón knew what arguments had been considered on both sides, and his intent apparently was to sound out Iranian officials on what they would...
...York. Suddenly, the race that only a week earlier appeared all but over now offered at least a stir of life. Crowed Carey Parker, one of Kennedy's speechwriters: "We felt as if we had pushed and pushed, and the whole dam just burst." Said Richard Drayne, a high-level Kennedy adviser: "The President has been living in a house of cards, and it is finally collapsing...
Last December scientists at the National Weather Service noticed an unanticipated change in air flows. It was as if the skirt had stopped undulating: the curves in the prevailing winds flattened, and fewer chill breezes were blowing down from the north. High-level winds above the 40th parallel (near Philadelphia) were running at extra high speeds, while those to the south slackened. In effect, explains Donald Gilman, the service's chief long-range forecaster, the cold arctic air was blocked, almost as if it were being held back by a great fence, letting warmer, southern air dominate the weather...