NATO researches new'
WASHINGTON (AP)-In the secret
files where such nightmares are kept,
many scenarios describe the opening
days of World War III.
One version-based on a strategy
called "the follow-on force at-
tack"-has attracted public attention
lately, partly because it has a happy
ending. Here it is:
SOMETIME IN the future, say 1995,
tensions between the Soviet Union and
the 16-member North Atlantic Treaty
Organization grow dangerous, and
negotiations fail.
The 2.9 million man NATO army, in-
cluding roughly 300,000 Americans, and
the 4-million strong Soviet bloc forces
line up on both sides of the East-West
border. Most of the Western forces are
committed to the front-line defense
along the 1,056 mile West German bor-
der with East Germany and
Czechoslovakia.
Aware of the U.S. capability to reinfor-
ce West Europe with several fresh
divisions within two weeks and coun-
ting on the desire of both sides to avoid
nuclear weapons, the Soviets launch a
conventional attack. Their aim is to
use their massive tank divisions to
crush the outgunned defenders and for-
ce them into a quick surrender.
THE FIRST days of fighting are fierce,
but the allies are confident they can
hold the leading edge of the Soviet of-
fensive without using "battlefield"
atomic weapons that surely would
trigger a worldwide nuclear holocaust.
Behind the East Bloc lines, waiting
for a weak point in the defense, are the
bulk of the Soviet armies.
The supreme allied commander, a
four star U.S. general, now plays his
ace in the hole: NATO's superiority in
sophisticated non-nuclear forces
capable of stopping the Soviet follow-up
forces that would tip the balance.
RECONAISSANCE AIRCRAFT that
can fly over home territory but "see"
enemy tank and trooper formation is
hiding.
Manned fighter bombers and Lance
and cruise missiles, armed with
"smart" munitions that don't miss, hit
the masses of waiting tanks, planes,
and troops.
The Red army's follow-on forces are
wiped out, the attack stalls, and the war
ends in either a stalemate or an allied
victory without a nuclear shot being
fired.
PLANS TO develop a "strategy" that
would make such a scenario workable
were revealed last month when NATO
ambassadors in Brussels ordered
military planners-most of them
Americans-to incorporate the "follow
on force attack" into Western defenses.
happy e
Gen. Bernard Rogers, NATO's top
commander, dislikes calling it a "new
strategy" since it's always been
NATO policy to attack forces in the
rear, if possible, without high losses.,
Now it's possible because of the new
weapons, he says.
For more than three years, Rogers
has argued that without such plans and
the high-tech weapons to carry them
out, he would have to ask a president
for authorization to use nuclear
weapons within days of the outbreak of
a conflict.
ROGERS' SPOKESMAN, Col. Gor-
don Bratz, told Pentagon reporters
recently that the follow-on forces attack
would be especially necessary to com-
bat the same kind of highly mobile
Soviet armor units that helped destroy
Hitler's Eastern front armies in World
War I.
The Soviet units would wait behind
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nding' strategy
the front for a breakthrough and then NATO has pledged to serve only in a
punch through the lines to capture defensive role. Members of the op-
cities, railheads and other vital centers. position Social Democratic Party in
Bratz said the Soviets proved the West Germany have expressed fears
value of such groups in a Warsaw Pact that the "follow-on forces attack" plans
exercise codenamed Zapad three years are an attempt to put NATO into the
ago, and have increased their use of such business of offense by contemplating
troops in subsequent maneuvers. strikes into East Germany,
HE ALSO asserted that Western in- Czechoslovakia, and perhaps Poland.
telligence recently intercepted Soviet Bratz called the charge a "myth."
messages indicating that Bonn and CALLING THE new concept
Frankfurt would be such units in a con- "dangerous doctrine," the Soviet
ventional war. Communist Party newspaper, Pravda,
Although military analysts are reluc- said last month the plan "cast off the
tant to argue with a concept that ap- defensive mask" which NATO had
pears to improve defenses and could worn during the post-war period.
lower the chance of nuclear war, some Less partisan is the simple question,
questions have been raised. "Will it work?"
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ta, has an effective honor code, Frye
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system at Emory and other schools
stems from tradition, he said.
One place where an honor code is
deeply rooted in the school's history is
The Univeristy of Virginia, whose
system has been in effect for 142 years.
Their single sanction system requires
that a student found guilty of any offen-
se be automatically expelled.
Students at the school have made four
attempts within the last six years to sof-
ten the punishments for minor infrac-
tions only to have the proposals
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At Stanford University, professors
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established in the 1920s at the request of
students, required that the pledges be
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According to Stanford Judicial Af-
fairs official Sally Cole, "about 20
students are found guilty each year. So
in a university of 13,000 students,
statistically, it's working well." Sur-
veys at Stanford have also shown that
the student body supports the system,
Cole said.
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