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Judgement on questions of security policy and international questions. Defense of the Federal Republic. Topics: Attitude to the Soviet Union and the USA; trust in the Soviet Union and the United States; feeling of community with the other countries of Western Europe and affiliation of the Soviet Union and USA in this community of nations; extent of connection of West German foreign policy with American; influence of the United States on domestic policy development in the Federal Republic; degree of personal freedom in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union; economic advantages as adequate substitute for small personal freedoms in the USSR; appropriateness of the criticism of western politicians of human right violations in the Soviet Union; arms control treaties only in concert with improvement in the human rights situation in the USSR; attitude to neutrality in the political dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union; probability of war in the next five years; trust in defense measures to protect the country; attitude to strong national defense and necessity of the military presence of the USA in Europe; personal defense readiness; the country with the greatest military threat to the Federal Republic; classification of the seriousness of a military threat on the part of the USSR; importance of strong national defense forces in connection with Gorbachev´s policies; the country with the greatest defense readiness for the Federal Republic; trust in defense preparedness of the USA; NATO or Warsaw Pact with an overweight of nuclear military forces; NATO overweight or equivalence with conventional military forces as guarantor of security in Western Europe; attitude to an increase in defense expenditures in the Federal Republic; assumed major reason for retention of Soviet military forces in Eastern Europe and American military forces in Western Europe; attitude to a reduction in military forces; most important reasons for strengthening...