TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS IN WEST GERMANY ON ARMS AND DISARMAMENT

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• Document Release Date: September 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: June 10, 1982
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1982
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By DAVID SilitIIIMAINI
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former. under Secretary of State
crecige.W. Ball said today.
"Without Unity Europeans now that
they could never defend themselves
against, an aggressive drive by the
Soviet Union, with whom theY share the
guropean continent." Mr. Ball told a
House Foreign Affairs subcorpinittee
,
Mr; $aU, long a specialist in Eur.
pean affairs, described 'suggestions that
American troops might be withdrawn
from Europe as alarming and said that
the, costa of maintaining a military
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presence in Europe had, been exagger-
.
-"Ii we station our troops in Europe, it
is in a sense a forward defense," he
said. "In, the event, of troubles where
they are irolef likely to be, particularly
the Middle East, forces in Europe could
be deployed far more quickly to the clan-
(
ger point."
Mr....Ball said the American troops in
Europe had come to stand as a symbol
of commitment to a Entope that twice
in this century was 'devastated bymiar
before American military aid was of.
, "The, presence of American
troops is an essential assurance that
this won't happen again," he said.
"This time we would be with them from
the outset."
In defending the American conimit-
nient to the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
ganization, Mr. Ball said that the men-
ace that brought the alliance into exist-
ance in the first place, the Soviet Union,
had not diminished. "The potential
common enemy of the NATO members
is,. fully as menacing today as when
NATO.was cenceived,'" he said. wile
Soviet Union still is expansionist, it still
is brutal, it still is highly suspicious and
xenophobic. If anything, NATO is more
important now than it was in the past."
He urged, however, that American
leaders seek to understand the geo-
graphical and historical impulses that
led European nations to embrace
detente while Americans recoiled from
it. "Detente was oversold," he said. "It
was unrealistically oversold. The soyi-
ets were never going to change the
habits of centuries. But it was very well
received in Europe. Europeans have
lived beside the Soviet Union for years
and face the menace to a greater extent
than we do."
He added, moreover, that American
appeals for trade sanctions with the
Soviet Union often imposed more bur-
dens on the allies than on the United
States. "Sanctions," he said, "mean a
great deal to Western Europe and they
mean almost nothing to us except in re-
gard to wheat. '
Mr. Ball was sharply critical of Presi-
dent Reagan's "crusade for democra-
cy" speech in London Monday. "I
thought we had gotten over that a long
time ago," he said.
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