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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1978
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(WASHINGTON - The Soviet
liiion on Saturday admitted it has
ent MiG-23 jetfighters to Cuba
the United States apparently
it an official notice that it is dis
hed with Moscow’s actions,
iwever, the Soviet Union has de-
d the planes violate the 1962
erstanding barring the presence
offensive weapons on the island
miles from American shores,
ecretary of State Cyrus Vance
nd Soviet Ambassador Anatoli
F brynin met Friday and a State
partment spokesman said, “They
talked about the MiG-23.’’
Although the spokesman declined
to give further details, it was pre
sumed Vance indicated President
Carter’s concern that the presence
of the swing-wing fighters may
violate the terms of the 1962 under
standing between Washington and
Moscow which bars Soviet offensive
weapons in Cuba.
The Communist Party daily
Pravda, in an editorial summarized
by the official Soviet News Agency
Tass, said any suggestion the planes
violate the Soviet-American agree
ment reached in the wake of the
Cuban missile crisis was “ground
less and provocatory from beginning
to end.”
(Former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger in Lubbock for a talk this
weekend, had other comments on
the situation, see story below.)
The Pravda article singled out for
criticism two American reporters,
syndicated columnists Robert Evans
and Roland Novak, calling an article
they wrote on the planes part of a
“scare” campaign.
The planes, with a range of about
600 miles, are not considered to be
the same type of threat as the in-
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TJBBOCK — The United States
mot continue to accept the de-
iyment of MiG-23 aircraft in Cuba
the Soviet Union because it de-
s detente and jeopardizes the
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Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger arrived Friday for a
press conference and an address to a
Chamber of Commerce banquet.
He said the Russians had sold
planes to the Cubans to free Cuban
Jtah governor links
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United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — Nevada atom bomb tests 15-20 years ago
howered most of Utah with radioactive fallout and Gov. Scott
datheson is going to Washington this week to try to find out if that is
he reason parts of the state have abnormally high cancer rates.
Matheson will demand to see all government files on the health
ffects of the A-bomb tests on American citizens in Utah and other
tales that received low-level doses of radiation from the 87 open-air
ests made in the Nevada desert between 1951 and 1962.
He will also ask Health Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph
ialifano to include a Utah cancer study in a plan to spend $40 million
esearching and identifying environmental health hazards. Califano
mnounced the proposal last week.
Last week Matheson visited St. George, Utah — 130 miles from
he Nevada test site — and was confronted by citizens who presented
lim with a list of 157 cancer victims.
“There are too many unanswered questions and the percentage of
Cancer is too high, he told them. “We must pursue this vigorously.”
Many of those citizens are working with a team of lawyers headed
iy former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall which has already filed 38
laims with the Department of Energy seeking $8 million in damages
or cancer victims or their relatives.
Eventually there could be several hundred claims,” says St.
Jeorge attorney MacArthur Wright, a member of the team. “We
enow of about 100 actual deaths or cases of cancer and we are discov-
ring new cases much faster then we anticipated. ”
MiG-21s for use in Africa, “so it is
really a way by which the Soviet
Union is encouraging aggression in
Africa.”
The former National Security
Council member said if the aircraft
are capable of carrying nuclear
weapons, the planes “would have a
range somewhat comparable to the
missiles that were in Cuba in 1962
that led to the initial crisis (between
the U.S. and the Soviets).
“I was astonished to read (Friday)
that we had stopped the overflights
of Cuba that had been going on
since the 1960s, Kissinger said. But
he said Americans should reserve
judgment on the MiG situation until
it became clear exactly what
capabilities the aircraft have.
“But I’d like to add another point.
It cannot be accepted by the United
States over an indefinite period that
the Soviet Union uses Cuba as a sort
of surrogate (force), putting its
troops into Cuba and freeing the
Cuban troops to go around the
world. This is the same thing as
using Soviet troops around the
world.”
He said that was a matter incom
patible with detente, the relaxation
of tensions and with normalizing
U.S.- Cuban relations. “It is a mat
ter that must be unacceptable to
us,” he said firmly.
Kissinger said his primary reason
for being in Lubbock was to pay
tribute to retiring Rep. George Ma
hon, D-Texas, who resigned his seat
this year after 44 years in Congress.
termediate range nuclear missiles
shipped to Cuba that touched off the
1962 missile crisis.
Pravda said the Soviet Union has
strictly adhered to the 1962 agree
ment barring Soviet offensive
weapons from Cuba and that the
planes are only there to protect
Cuban security interests. It also
stated that the Soviet Union will
continue to defend itself in this mat
ter.
In Washington, administration
sources said Friday that President
Carter has ordered SR-71
“Blackbird” reconnaissance jets to
fly missions over Cuba. They said
Carter ordered the reconnaissance
flights to determine whether the
planes were the latest model MiG-
23’s, which can carry nuclear
weapons, or whether tbey are an
earlier model which cannot.
Sources said about 15 of the ad
vanced MiG-23s were shipped to
Havana in crates aboard a Soviet
freighter and assembled last month.
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