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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.followup
Subject: Re: Soviet Reaction to Pershings
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 15:52:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  1 15:52:39 1983
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Dismayed is not the same as surprised.  I watched the MacNeil-Lehrer
news Hour the night the W. Germans voted to accept the missiles.
EVERY action the Soviets took in response to the US missile deployment
was predicted by the 3 experts who were on the show.  Reagan was
expressing his disappointment over the Soviet reaction - not his
surprise.

In addition, basing the Pershings in W. Germany was not a unilateral
decision by the US.  It was a move demanded by the NATO leaders due
to all the missiles the Soviets have in Europe.  The Europeans did
not feel secure that we would use our US based missiles in the event
of a Soviet invasion in Europe.

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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