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Other areas of the Helsinki agreement have promoted trade and scientific and technological cooperation, and strengthened confidence-building measures, like prior notification of NATO and Warsaw Pact military movements involving more than 25,000 troops. The signatories also recognized the inviolability of postwar European borders, conceding to the Soviets their own sphere of influence...
...Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to seduce France and the NATO countries into accepting the Soviet line [NATION, Oct. 14] has been so blatant and sophomoric that it insults the world's intelligence. James W. Hook Albuquerque...
...fact that the Sofia summit resulted in little more than Kremlin posturing in advance of Gorbachev's November meeting with Ronald Reagan in Geneva. A 15-page declaration blamed the U.S. for aggravating the arms race and piously declared that since its founding in 1955 as a counterforce to NATO, the Warsaw Pact "has been reliably safeguarding the peaceful constructive labor of the fraternal peoples...
Although it has one-third more manpower than NATO, and twice as much armor and artillery, the pact is evidently under considerable strain. When the signatory nations met last April in Warsaw to formally renew the alliance for 20 more years, Nicolae Ceausescu of Rumania let it be known that he favored an extension of only five years. Many East Europeans view the 535,000 uniformed Soviet soldiers stationed in their countries as an army of occupation. That impression is reinforced by the ultimate control exercised by Soviet officers during military maneuvers, which are conducted four times a year...