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...There are fears among some West Germans about what they call the Finlandization of their country. Anticipating U.S. troop withdrawals, they worry that West Germany will be left so vulnerable to Soviet pressure that the country may be decisively influenced by a desire not to offend Moscow...
...Venusberg. "We are only trying to catch up. Each of our allies has more normal relations with the East bloc than we have." Yet, as Brandt presses on with his Ostpolitik, he may indeed get far out in front of his allies. A key question is future U.S. troop strength. In his recent State of the World message, President Nixon said that U.S. forces in Europe will remain at their present level of 310,000 until mid-1971. After that date, large cuts may take place. To a limited degree, the NATO allies can take up some slack; last week...
...their private conversations, Pompidou praised Nixon's troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but gently suggested that the pace was too slow. Before Congress, he alluded to his government's belief that the U.S. has failed to meet Hanoi halfway. "At times we have regretted its length," he said of the peace conference, "and wondered whether the paths followed have always been the speediest and surest." Aware of the Administration's reluctance to appear the loser in Viet Nam, he mentioned France's past agonies of pride over Southeast Asia and Algeria...
...from Alaska." But "disengage" is a relative term. A mutual reduction of forces, if the Russians agree, is one goal. Increased military efforts by the West Europeans is another. In any event, though Nixon pledges continued support for NATO, he declines to commit the U.S. to maintain its current troop strength of 310,000 on the Continent beyond...
...Biafrans made the first important moves of the war. Boiling out of their enclave, they captured Benin, capital of the neighboring Midwest. By early 1968, however, the difference in troop strength began to be felt. Federal forces won one of the most important battles of the war by taking the key shipping center of Calabar and Port Harcourt, with its airport, harbor and oil installations. For the remainder of the fight, Biafra was a landlocked island. Apart from radios, its sole contact with the world was a 75-ft.-wide strip of highway at Uli that had been converted into...