Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncontested strategic nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union. in the late '60s and early '70s, that comfortable margin in intercontinental weaponry gave way to parity, or rough equivalence. At the same time, the Soviets continued their buildup in military manpower and conventional forces within Europe until the Warsaw Pact had a considerable numerical edge over NATO...
After two days of closed-door discussions in the centuries-old Hradčany Castle overlooking Prague, the Soviet-led military alliance unveiled a "new grand peace proposal." Noting that nuclear war would have "catastrophic consequences," the Warsaw Pact leaders urged the Western alliance to join with them in a "treaty on the mutual nonuse of military force and the preservation of peaceful relations." The nonaggression pact also called for a ban on nuclear testing, chemical warfare and neutron weapons...
Still, such tough-sounding language might give way to calls for compromise if there is no sign of progress in Geneva. U.S. officials pointed out that the East bloc has been talking about a nonaggression pact for more than 25 years and dismissed the Prague plan as a propaganda exercise. The Warsaw Pact proposal, however, was tailored not for the Pentagon but for public opinion in Western Europe, where peace protests are expected to spread as the NATO missile deadline approaches. If Reagan did not dismiss the Prague offer out of hand, it may be because Administration officials are becoming...
...Prague summit resulted in some fine-tuning of a new Soviet peace offensive, but it apparently accomplished little else. The final statement offered no solutions for the serious economic problems besetting the nations of the Warsaw Pact. With lagging industrial productivity, persistent shortages of consumer goods and a $70 billion debt to the West, the seven-nation alliance can ill afford an escalating arms race with the West. Financially strapped Poland, which owes the West some $26 billion, was offered only the most perfunctory assurances that it could "rely on the moral, political and economic support from its socialist, fraternal...
...Soviet press also charged that the CIA had fabricated rumors of Soviet and Bulgarian involvement in the papal plot in order to undermine the Warsaw Pact. The "Bulgarian connection," a Soviet TV commentator noted, is like the Reichstag fire that was believed to have been set by Hitler's agents and blamed on Communists, thus helping to consolidate Nazi power. Said the Soviet newsman: "Half a century later, antisocialists are [again] preparing a war against the socialist community." A day later, Radio Moscow predicted confidently that Sergei Ivanov Antonov, one of the Bulgarians fingered by Agca, would be released...