German government is determined to deploy the missiles. To accomplish this, it is prepared to face a test of strength with the peace movement.
The election result - which reflected the fact that the fear of depression was greater than the fear of nuclear extermination — appears to give the new government a mandate for taking on the peace movement. The bourgeois government is trying to present its electoral majority as support for deploying the missiles.
It will also use repressive means, such as the announced tightening of the law on demonstrations, to break the resistance to the deployment of the missiles. All of this represents a decisive challenge for the