Thatmay haveworkedinthe past, butashealthbudgets are squeezedin theWest and cheapertechnologiesemergefromthe east, emotion will surely yield to economics.
If new anti-missile pacts emergeinthe Middle East and the Pacific, with American or American-financed technology at their core, could the Atlantic alliance supposedly America's most important be left behind?
To minimize the chances that an alternative view might emergeinthe Defense Department concerning the direction East-West economic relations should take, the State Department has assigned no fewer than three of its employees to staff the Secretary of Defense on these matters.