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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1980
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WASHINGTON — The use of
merican tactical nuclear weapons
to stop a Soviet thrust toward the
[ersian Gulf would likely escalate
to a catastrophic atomic war be-
_reen the superpowers, U.S. offi-
I Hals say.
* ^They say, however, the United
Itates reserves the right to use
ictical nuclear arms — small,
ttlefield weapons created to
ovide an alternative to
t tre'conventional warfare or an all-out
piiinpf [omic holocaust.
The warning about tactical nuclear
gaDogBms came as a Pentagon study
ecassj dicated the us of such weapons
quefe ay be the only way to stop a Soviet
ove in the Persian Gulf.
The study — as reported by The
3w York Times Saturday —
ez ',included conventional U.S. forces
uld not stop a Soviet thrust into
irthem Iran.
The Defense Department report
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said the United States should
therefore consider using tactical
nuclear weapons in a conflict with
the Soviet Union for control of Iran’s
oil fields.
U.S. officials said the use of
tactical nuclear weapons if the Soviet
bloc were on the brink of defeating
the West would likely lead to a
devastating general war.
Therefore, according to the
officials, the firing of such weapons
would be weighed with utmost
gravity and would be directly related
to circumstances that have yet to
arise.
But Defense Secretary Harold
Brown, testifying on Capitol Hill this
week, warned the Soviets not to
push the situation in the Persian
Gulf to the point where the United
States would be forced to address
such an issue.
T think it would be a mistake for
anyone to assume these days that a
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DACHAU, West Germany —
The television series “Holocaust,”
broadcast last year in West
Germany, helped draw the largest
number of visitors ever to the
concentration camp at Dachau in
1979, officials said.
When shown in January, 1979,
the “Holocaust” series about the fate
of German Jews under Nazi rule
triggered widespread discussion in
West Germany.
Visitor figures for 1979 showed a
22 percent increase over 1978, with
the number of young German
visitors rising by more than half,
officials said Friday.
Portrait of Jack Robinson
sold in a matter of seconds
war between the United States and
Soviet Union can be won by either
side,” Brown told the Senate Armed
Services Committee Thursday.
At the Pentagon, officials tried to
counter assertions from skeptical
senators that the United States lacks
the muscle to make good the
warning to the Kremlin.
The officials said Pentagon
policymakers have pondered the use
of tactical nuclear weapons, but
noted the United States has been
weighing the question ever since
acquiring them.
On a related matter, BroW n t 0 * 1 *
the Senate Armed S£ rv * ces
Committee Thursday the
administration may reconsi(l er *t s
1978 decision against pro^ uc i n 8
neutron warheads.
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LONDON — Christie’s auction
house sold a portrait of Jack
Robinson quicker than you can say
his name.
Frank Steele, whose wife is
descended from Robinson, Friday
paid $7,600 for an 18th century
portrait of John Robinson, secretary
of the British Treasury in the years
before the American War for
Independence.
Robinson was so quick of temper,
the saying went, that swords would
be drawn before you could say “Jack
Robinson.” The saying persisted in
the English language long after the
original was forgotten.
Not that this weighed highly with
Steele, although he won the bidding
on the Robinson portrait after “only a
few seconds,” a spokesman said.
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PARIS — A mansion gutted
ring the French Revolution is
being remodeled to house more than
^,000 Picasso works the artist loved
so much he refused to part with
■sm.
■But before the 17th century
fciilding, called Hotel Sale, opens to
flu public in 1982, art lovers in the
tiled States will be treated to
owings of some of the
tsterpieces.
month-long exhibition of 80
intings, 25 sculptures and 50
iwings by Pablo Picasso will open
[b. 8 at the Walker Art Center in
meapolis.
In March they will move to New
Irk for the 50th anniversary of the
jiseum of Modern Art; 150
Jitional works will be sent from
Jrance.
■ Once the museum in Paris is
npleted we will not be able to
id our works abroad in such
quantities,” said Picasso Museum
Director Dominique Bozo. “The
New York show will be the largest
and last great Picasso retrospective.”
After the Spanish master’s death
in 1973 his collection estimated to be
worth $100 million was acquired by
the French government under a law
allowing estates to pay inheritance
taxes with art, thus helping preserve
national artistic wealth.
The Spanish master’s seven heirs
split the rest of his estimated $200
million estate.
The French government is
spending about $7 million to
renovate the Hotel Sale — although
until 1947 not a single Picasso work
was allowed to grace a state art
museum.
The Picasso museum is being
created in the Right Bank’s Marais
quarter a one-time swamp along an
ancient Roman highway cleared by
monks in the 13th century.
The Marais was one of the city’s
most fashionable quarters early in
the 17th century. Leading architects
and artists filled it with splendid
town houses — known as hotels —
for noble families. Residents
included Louis XII, Henri II,
Catherine de Medici, Henri IV,
Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu.
Later the quarter ceased to be
fashionable and was virtually
abandoned. The Hotel Sale was
gutted during th French Revolution.
It became a school in the 19th
century was bought by a bronze
manufacturer and was ceded to Paris
in 1963 when the city began
renovating the ancient Marais.
“The building was a shambles,”
Bozo said. “At one time it was a
prestigious scientific school, but for
the last 15 years it went unused.
“But the Hotel Sale is ideal,” he
added. “Picasso spent his life in that
sort of building. There is no conflict
between the building and Picasso’s
art, because Picasso was still in the
tradition of classical culture and
classical art.
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