Walter mondale. Our panelists for tonights debate on defense and Foreign Policy issues are georgie anne geyer, syndicated columnist for universal press syndicate, marvin kalb, chief Diplomatic Correspondent for nbc news, morton kondracke, executive editor of the new republic magazine, and henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent for the baltimore sun. Edwin newman, formerly of nbc news and now a syndicated columnist for king features, is our moderator. Ed . Edwin dorothy ridings, thank you. A brief word about our procedure tonight. The first question will go to mr. Mondale. Hell have two and a half minutes to reply. Then the panel member who put the question will ask a followup. The answer to that will be limited to one minute. After that, the same question will be put to president reagan. Again, there will be a followup. And then each man will have one minute for rebuttal. The second question will go to president reagan first. After that, the alternating will continue. At the end ther
Cold war it was an ideological for people who said you know it its not clear what system is best what system will prevail. In track of it which are a long time the issue of who was more calm economically 2 years was not totally clearly displayed and in the west the sputnik shock caused total panic sets for the proof. How surprising was that now its us who are showing the west showing the americans what technical progress is to shoot from. Dumb muds guppy and immunity to the military doctrine at the time was mutual assured destruction we would prefer to think its a. Really were. Youre still going to throw in the 1st 15 minutes of a war germany would have gone up in flames like a tool which. It had we were really scared because it could all kick off any time someone goes crazy and bam were in the middle of the 2 on. The 2nd world war came to an end in europe in may 945. 00 with germanys Unconditional Surrender the victorious powers divided the ruined country into force owns a bucket pati
Will prevail. In 1959 on in our call for the dont despair to take part in the planning and deployment of Nuclear Weapons. A concept known as nuclear sharing. Does not mean sure i slept was frightened me because by now well be what it happened in hiroshima and nagasaki. And yes even as a we visited various military training areas in the vicinity of hamburg can we believe that we would be able to see from the card whether any Nuclear Weapons were stored there or anything else and then on december 6th there was a headline in the local newspaper on this john missiles tested in bigger hornets and i said right thats where im going even if i have to go a lot of us years you know going to learn to get. The temples staged protests against rearmament culminating in west germany 1st easter peace march in 1960. The organizers faced widespread public anger. The real issue we went in to cure that would still have been harmless we were soundly cussed and of course regarded as communists go back to th
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