Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tty3b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!tty3b!mjk From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: EuroMissiles and Belgium Message-ID: <579@tty3b.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 15:06:40 EST Article-I.D.: tty3b.579 Posted: Mon Jan 21 15:06:40 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:18:17 EST Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill Lines: 22 The Chicago Tribune ran an editorial yesterday (1/20) on "The Belgian Solution", which is the approach that the Belgian Prime Minister is taking to deployment of U.S. missiles in his country. Basically, the Prime Minister is facing elections within the next eleven months, at a time when polls show 47% of Belgians oppose deployment and only 18% support it. He is appealing to Washington to let him delay deployment until after the election so he doesn't lose. Reagan has "warned" the Prime Minister not to delay deployment Does the Tribune suggest that he listen to the near-majority in his country and tell the U.S. where it can put its missiles? No, that he show some "political courage" and continue with the deployment as scheduled. I guess that's the same kind of "political courage" shown by the Polish government in responding to Solidarity, or the "courage" shown by Reagan himself in ignoring the call for serious arms negotiations by a large majority of Americans. Seldom is it so clear just who calls the shots in Europe. In the East, it is undoubtedly the USSR. This makes it very clear who Big Brother is in the West. Mike Kelly