Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will point to the overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...
...document, Walesa said, "Why don't we take a ten-minute break?" "No, we're so close, let's sign," Jagielski responded. "Perhaps a 20-minute break would be in order," was Walesa's reply. Half an hour later, Jagielski delivered the goods on the jailed dissidents, and the pact was announced...
...pledge not to use nuclear weapons first would weaken the doctrine of "extended deterrence," the American nuclear umbrella that covers Western Europe. For that doctrine to remain credible, the U.S. must retain the option of first using nuclear weapons against an attack on Western Europe by the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior conventional forces. If a war in Europe were limited to conventional arms, the Soviets would be heavily favored...
...Polish military is a rare institution in the Communist East bloc: a People's Army that is truly popular. The 319,500 members of the three major armed forces, the largest non-Soviet military group within the Warsaw Pact, have a tradition of austere professionalism, which stands in stark contrast to the corruption that has plagued Poland's civilian bureaucracy and angered the people. A recent national poll showed that civilians ranked the army third in favor among the country's institutions, just behind the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. (The party came in a poor sixth...
...more likely to be called in by the Polish government to help quell growing disturbances. But if the crisis were to escalate into a full-scale invasion, analysts believe that the Poles would fight, and fight well, even though they are outgunned and outnumbered. There are 57 Warsaw Pact divisions on Poland's borders and two more within the country, vs. the 15 Polish army divisions. The Soviets, moreover, could quickly cut off the Polish military's gasoline supply by shutting down the Friendship oil pipeline that runs across the country to East Germany...