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West Germans protest missile deployment
(Continued.fromPe t3) i Western leaders saw a heightened ON BOTH sides, these weapons may high-priority Soviet target in a super-
that may explode in their midst. Soviet threat and decided to act. have more political than military impor- power showdown. Some accuse
OPINION POLLS show Germans' IN DECEMBER 1979, the NATO tance. missiles here as a way of keeping the
mixed feelings: overwhelming allies agreed to station 572 U.S. inter- A WEST GERMAN military leader, U.S. homeland out of a war to defeat the
majorities still support the NATO mediate-range missiles in Western who spoke with a reporter on condition Soviets on a "Battleground Europe."
alliance, but some 6 percent oppose Europe, but at the same time to he not be identified, elaborated. Hundreds of thousands of protesters
deployment of the new U.S. missiles. negotiate with the Soviets to limit the "NATO's capability to reach the streamed through Western Europe's
The United States withdrew its last number of such weapons on both sides. Soviet Union with our aircraft is fading. streets in late 1981, and the demon-
European-based medium-range Deployment of the American Putting these new missiles in Europe strators have surged back this spring,
nuclear missiles, capable of striking missiles, a five-year process, is means the Soviet Union couldn't count particularly in Britain and West Ger-
the Soviet Union, in the 1960s, saying scheduled to begin late this year. on a conflict being limited to Europe, many.
U.S.-based ICBMs would provide a Five countries-West Germany with their own country as a sanctuary.. The anti-missile fever will rise as the
"nuclear umbrella" to deter Soviet at- Britain, Italy, Belgium and the .So, the probability of a limited year goes on. In West Germany, ac-
tack. Netherlands-will receive 464 cruise European war is lessened, and so is the tivists promise to physically block at-
The Soviets kept their own medium- missiles, low-flying, relatively slow jet probability of a world war." tempts to install the missiles. The
range rocket force, aimed at Western dropes with a 1,500-mile range. West The greens and other anti-missle ac- powerful Dutch peace movement is
Europe, and in the late 1970s began Germany will also receive 108 Pershing tivists disagree. planning a massive protest for October
replacing single-warhead SS-4s and 2s, a highly accurate ballistic missile TO THEMany addition of weapons is
SS-5s with advanced, mobile SS-20s, that would take just 12 minutes to strike destabilizing, and these new missile Saturday: Geneva Talks pur-
topped by three warheads each. a target 1,000 miles away. bases would make West Germany a sue elusive goal
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