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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 22, 1984
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PHASE-DOWN OF U.S. NATO TROOPS BARELY AVERTED:
"EURO-ELECTIONS" A BAROMETER OF POLITICAL TRENDS
I had cleared passport control in Vienna, Austria and was about to board my
flight to London where I was to connect with the polar flight to Los
Angeles. I hurried to the newsstand where I picked up a copy of the SUNDAY
TIMES of Britain, dated June 17. The headline running across all seven col
umns at the top read "U.S. Senate Set to take 100,000 NATO Troops Home."
The article described legislation in the form of an amendment to the de
fense budget authorization bill, which was working its way through the up
per house of the U.S. Congress. It would, if signed into law, call for a
phase of withdrawal of approximately a third of U.S. troops in Europe, be
ginning in 1986 or 1987.
The actual intent by the authors of the bill is to issue a signal to Euro
pean NATO members to increase their spending on conventional armaments.
Beset with continuing economic woes, most European governments within the
alliance have been falling considerably short of their agreed targets of
real annual rises of three percent in defense spending.
President Reagan is adamantly against the legislation. He feels that to
put such pressure on America's allies in Europe will not have the desired
effect, but that it will simply add to already somewhat sour transatlantic
feelings. Only two weeks before, the President had delivered a stirring
speech on the shores of Normandy Beach commemorating the 40th anniversary
of D-Day. In it he stressed that "America had learned its lesson"--that it
is far better for the U.S. to keep peacetime forces on the continent indefi
nitely than to have to rush in, as in World Wars I and II, with a mighty
army to deliver the nations of Europe from bondage.