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The World : Europe Troop Cut Urged

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NATO proposed to the Warsaw Pact that U.S. and Soviet forces in Central Europe be reduced. The proposal was handed by senior ambassadors of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to their East Bloc counterparts at an informal meeting in Vienna in advance of its formal introduction at Thursday’s plenary meeting of the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks. Western sources saw it as an effort to break the deadlock in the talks, which involve 19 countries and have continued for 12 years.

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