Word: pact
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...Moscow ever decides to invade Poland, the first soldiers into action would probably come from the Soviet units already stationed inside the country as part of the Warsaw Pact force facing NATO across Central Europe. The Soviet troops, which are estimated to number 40,000, are concentrated in two locations, in the northwest near the rural hamlet of Borne and in the southwest at Legnica, a city of 75,000, where their main headquarters is situated. Each base accommodates a tank division of about 10,000 troops, 350 T-64 and T-72 tanks and more than 2,000 other...
...Saturday work boycott renewed fears that Solidarity's escalating demands could bring on a Soviet invasion. These worries were heightened by the arrival in Warsaw last week of Soviet Marshal Viktor Kulikov, commander in chief of Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces. Western observers interpreted Kulikov's visit as both a gesture of support for the Kania regime and a warning to the restive workers. Some analysts speculated that Kulikov may have discussed plans for joint maneuvers on Polish soil-an operation that could serve as a cover for Soviet intervention...
...Tourism in protest over the Camp David peace agreement. He made no apologies for his opposition to the accord, but Begin nevertheless brought him back as Israel's economic police chief, as it were. Hurvitz scored a notable success last April when he managed to seal a pact with Israel's major labor federation, the Histadrut, to set a graduated ceiling on wage claims until April 1982. Nevertheless, he worries about the government's chances of bringing inflation under control. Says he: "Inflation is like a cog and in Israel it's very well greased...
...looks ahead to his Administration, Ronald Reagan concedes that the worsening economy might delay his timetable for balancing the budget, but he still intends to cut taxes as well as spending. He wants to negotiate a new arms control pact with Moscow, but warns that an invasion of Poland could lead to a trade and diplomacy "quarantine" against the Soviet Union. On other subjects, from welfare to the environment to human rights, he maintains his basic firm, conservative line. Shortly before Christmas, Reagan discussed his views in a lengthy interview with TIME Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett, who covered...
...Moving on to foreign affairs, what do you think a Warsaw Pact invasion of Poland would do to East/West relations...