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U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 8, Page 15<br />

Ronald Reagan's defense policy came under assault in late October from opposite directions: The<br />

threat <strong>of</strong> an intensified arms race <strong>by</strong> Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and a tilt toward antinuclear pacifism<br />

<strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> hierarchy <strong>of</strong> America's Roman Catholic Church.<br />

Two days after a panel <strong>of</strong> U.S. Catholic bishops questioned <strong>the</strong> morality <strong>of</strong> nuclear weapons,<br />

Brezhnev said <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union must expand its arsenal even more. The U.S., he claimed, is<br />

threatening to "push <strong>the</strong> world into <strong>the</strong> flames <strong>of</strong> nuclear war."<br />

One White House <strong>of</strong>ficial speculated that Brezhnev wanted to do more than assure his generals that

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