Reagan blasts ‘stealth’ unveiling
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1980
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United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Ronald Reagan invaded Jimmy Car
ter's southern political base Thursday and charged the presi
dent with playing a “dangerous game” with the national secur
ity for political benefit.
I Reagan charged Carter has jeopardized national security
bd aided the Russian KGB by revealing development of the
Istealth” aircraft system that cannot be detected by radar.
J Saying Carter gave away the biggest military secret since the
;om bomb, the Republican nominee said, “Mr. Carter must
ike full responsibility for playing a dangerous game with our
itional security policy. ”
Reagan stopped in Jacksonville, Fla., and New Orleans on
J d a $20 In ^ irst Southern campaign swing. New Orleans rain forced his
Carter re |f ver ^ ront ra ^V * nto a l ar g e riverboat and demonstrators chant
ing “E-R-A” interrupted his speech briefly before being
y a . Rwned out by supporters’ chants of “Reagan. ”
x | ln / u •H All day Reagan hammered away at the Carter administration
" for letting the world know the Defense Department was de-
()ut S | m ' 0 ”' Ijeloping the aircraft invisible to enemy radar,
ite " 3 B The law provides severe penalty for anyone violating milit-
on tt Rb' wea P ons secrets of this magnitude,” Reagan said,
it I" 1 T“ H ^is'case, because the breach of security was blessed and
( h'i V J 5 || intt ' onet l by the Carter administration — clearly for the sole
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political purpose of aiding Mr. Carter’s troubled campaign —
there will be no such penalty,” he said.
But when asked if he thought Defense Secretary Harold
Brown should be prosecuted for giving away military secrets,
Reagan said: I don t see how he could be — the secretary of
defense has the power to declassify classified material.”
The Reagan campaign hopes to break Carter’s lock on the
South, and the 17 electoral votes in Florida and 10 in Louisiana
are key targets.
Reagan got an enthusiastic reception in Jacksonville, a city
with a heavy Democratic enrollment. Businessmen greeted
him at lunch with cheers and rebel yells and a later outdoor
rally crowd of about 2,000 frequently interrupted his speech
with applause.
He attacked the administration sharply for last week’s
announcement by Secretary of Defense Harold Brown that
he was revealing “stealth” because of leaks to the news
media.
The motivation behind the release, Reagan said, was an
attempt by Carter to counter his charges the administration
has allowed Russia to achieve military superiority over the
United States.
“Since the stealth aircraft would not have been ready for use
until the 1990s, the Carter administration’s action has now
given the Kremlin a 10-year headstart on developing ways to
counter this type of ultra-sophisticated weapons system,”
Reagan said.
“The KGB no doubt gleefully celebrated this unearned
triumph,” he said.
Reagan called Carter’s political use of the Defense Depart
ment “a cynical misuse of power and a clear abuse of the public
trust,” and he claimed Carter was willing “to actually com
promise our long-term national security for a two-day head
line.
“Military officials who have served this nation in the very
highest capacities tell me they cannot recall such a serious
breach of national security secrets,” Reagan said. Reagan aides
would not say what military officials he was quoting.
Reagan also criticized Edmund Muskie for being a “politic
al” secretary of state, “not at all reluctant to do the Carter
campaign’s bidding. ”
“Under the Carter administration, American’s foreign and
defense policies have been politicized as never before,” he
said.
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Soviet space boom worries U. S.
United Press International
MOSCOW — Just what are the
ussians doing in space these days?
Everyone agrees they’re laun-
ing a lot of rockets.
The question is whether they’re
st catching up with technology the
United States has had for 15 years, or
rfecting a weapon that could vapo
rize other nations spaceships and
usher in what one scientist calls a
“Battlestar Galactica” era of space
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International
4 — Barring:
In terms of manned flights, the
' Soviets dominate the skies right
|ow. In the last six months they have
nt eight men in four separate mis-
ions into space. Two of them are
most certain to set a new space en
trance record,
ice by the SJLi The 1980 space scoreboard shows
■ American t|Bie United States with a goose-egg.
ue to haveet|. Still, Western space watchers in
hts to Arann Moscow are less than impressed with
firm is non the concrete results produced by the
Arabia. flights of Soyuz-35, 36, the T-2 and,
nment gaind last month, Soyuz-37.
:he ArabianIsh “They repeat the same functions
nesday toeiK over and over again,” said one ex-
ownership ii pert. “They go up, dock, transfer
Supplies and come back. Big deal. ”
i Taher, govtnt The flights have all centered
r’etromin natr around the Salyut-6 space lab, a 20-
i interview it ton docking bay that will celebrate its
Saudi Report third birthday in space Sept. 29.
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United Press International
DALLAS — It took Lula Swimm
33 years to confirm her suspicions
her sewage and garbage bills were a
bit steep.
“But then it isn’t every day you go
around comparing your garbage bill
with your neighbors’,” she said.
The over-billing began in 1946
when she took possession of a duplex
in the exclusive University Park area
and promptly converted it into a
The Salyuts appear to be the way
the Soviets plan to travel to other
planets. The United States has de
cided on a space shuttle. The first
flight of the first shuttle, the Col
umbia, probably will come early next
year.
By all accounts, the U.S. program
is less expensive, more flexible in its
potential uses and of greater com
mercial value.
“The Soviets would love to have a
space shuttle like ours, but they
don’t have the technology,” says an
American who has compared the
programs. “The Soviets have prop
osed a joint Soyuz-Shuttle project.
But we’d get nothing out of that.”
But the Soviets are clearly ahead
in one area that makes most analysts
shudder — the development of mis-
sile-to-missile and Earth-to-missile
directed energy weapons.”
“Call them whatever you want:
death rays, vaporizers. They’re
weapons intended to destroy space
vehicles,” says one wary watcher.
The idea was born with the so-
called hunter-killer satellites: pairs
of unmanned sputniks. One chased
the other, locked onto its course, and
then destroyed it.
The Soviets claim that their re
search only brings them even with
existing American capabilities for
destruction in orbit.
“They say the shuttle has the abil
ity to capture a smaller satellite and
disarm it mechanically,” says the
analyst. “Technically it’s true, but I
know of no intention to use the shut
tle in that way.”
The latest refinement in the Soviet
space arsenal, however, puts them in
a league of their own.
DEW—directed energy weapons
— send concentrated beams of ener
gy at the speed of light. Like lasers,
they destroy anything in their path
by breaking down its molecular
structure.
“It’s ‘Battlestar Gallactica,’ no
less. It’s terrifying,” says the scien
tist, who is not given to hyperbole.
He believes the Soviets are develop
ing such weapons to be used either
from orbiting spaceships or from
Earth.
A member of the House Armed
Services Committee seems to take
the threat seriously, too.
We may be a lot closer to Buck
Rogers’ or ‘Star Wars’ than most folks
realize,” said Rep. William Dick
inson.
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Shooting down another nation’s
space satellites would not break any
laws, as long as they are out of the
Earth’s atmosphere. The SALT 1
treaty protects satellites only until
they reach “outer space”.
“There’s a need for some kind of
international legislation to prevent a
shoot-em-out in space,” says the
Western analyst. But so far the Rus
sians aren’t interested in talking, de
spite informal overtures from the
United States.
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