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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1981
Reagan says Soviets
distorting U.S. policy
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan Wednesday accused the
Soviet Union of gross distortions
of U.S. policy and said America
stands firmly opposed to the use of
nuclear weapons at any level.
The statement, issued aboard
Air Force One as the president
was en route to the 22-nation sum
mit at Cancun, was an apparent
attempt to stem rising concern in
Western Europe about Reagan’s
comments, which suggested a tac
tical nuclear exchange could be li
mited to Europe, in an interview
last week.
“The suggestion that the Un
ited States could even consider
fighting a nuclear war at Europe’s
expense is an outright deception, ”
the president said.
“The essence of U.S. nuclear
strategy is that no aggressor
should believe that the use of nuc
lear weapons in Europe could
reasonably be limited to Europe.”
Reagan said the United States
would seek to respond to aggres
sion against Western Europe at
the lowest possible level.
Soviet President Leonid
Brezhnev warned Tuesday it
would be “dangerous madness’’
for any nation to believe a nuclear
war would be winnable. He also
said any country that used nuclear
weapons would face full retribu
tion.
“In the past few days, the
Soviet Union has issued several
propaganda statements that seek
to drive a wedge between the Un
ited States and some of our closest
friends in Europe,” Reagan said.
“I do not intend to let these
gross distortions of our policies go
unchallenged.”
The statement shifted the
emphasis of Reagan’s comment
Friday to a group of editorial wri
ters that he “could see where you
could have the exchange of tactical
weapons in the field without it
bringing either one of the major
powers to pushing the button.”
Asked whether all-out nuclear
war would be an inevitable out
growth of an exchange of tactical
weapons, Reagan replied Friday,
that he didn’t honestly know.
In Moscow, those comments
prompted Brezhnev to call on
Reagan to “make a clear and un
ambiguous statement rejecting
the very idea of nuclear attack as a
criminal one.”
But in his statement Wednes
day, Reagan said his position is no
different from that taken by pre
vious presidents who have had to
deal with the ever-present threat
of nuclear war.
“As all presidents have acknow
ledged, any use of nuclear
weapons would have the most pro
found consequences,” he said. “In
a nuclear war, all mankind would
lose.”
He added that “375,000 U.S.
servicemen (in Europe) provide
the living guarantee of this un-
shakeable U.S. commitment to
the peace and security of
Europe.”
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WASHINGTON — Maj. Gen.
ranee (or obert Schweitzer learned the
remiums ard way that good soldiers do not
iakepotentially inflammatory re-
arks without their superior’s
lowledge — especially when
dr superior is at the White
louse.
White House officials said
chweitzer, until Tuesday a mem-
erofthe National Security Coun-
fl,was speaking for himself when
j i Hold a group of Army officers
(v j , !e Soviet Union is poised to
1 ° r rike against a vulnerable United
tales.
What s more, White House
»kesman David Gergen said,
chweitzer understood the talk
as off the record. “People speak
j heir personal feelings off the re
cord,”he said.
Nonetheless, Schweitzer lost
his NSC job Tuesday because he
not clear what one Pentagon
..—.vial called “incendiary’ re-
lC , larks with his superiors — speci-
cally National Security Adviser
ichard Allen — at the White
louse.
Schweitzer, a 28-year Army
cteran, was the chief defense
rategistforthe NSC. Heisbping
assigned to the Department of
leArmy over the next few days, a
lokesman said.
Schweitzer’s remarks were
ablished in Tuesday’s Washing-
m Post. The general spoke of a
rift toward war, the Post re-
orted, and he added:
The Soviet Union knows that
irthe first time they have super-
irity in every leg of the triad
and- and submarine-based nuc-
ar missiles and long-range bom-
ers),”
The Soviets, he said, “are on the
love; they are going to strike. ”
The United States, the general
ontinued, is “in the greatest dan-
Cr that the republic has ever
iced since its founding days.”
Schweitzer also said there is
hunting evidence the Soviets
Ian to invade Poland and con-
fflue to prepare to take over the
Persian Gulf oil fields.
At an afternoon briefing Tues-
iy, Allen said the NSC staff is not
elling Reagan “we are drifing to
ward war.” But he declined to
omment on what information
chweitzer based his remarks.
Allen told reporters Schweit
zer, 53, “was abjectly sorry for
iving undertaken to make the
leech and was also sorry about
he content. ”
Allen told Schweitzer Tuesday
Homing it would be best for him
oleave the White House because
broken the rule that all
Peeches by NSC staff members
tost be approved in advance by
Hen.
;an agreed with the deci-
ion to transfer Schweitzer, but
he president told reporters later
itheday he considered Schweit-
fr to be a fine soldier.
The president said he does not
believe the United States is im
periled by the Soviet Union, but
said it could have been if the new
administration had not halted a
trend toward unilateral U.S. dis
armament.
While Allen regretted having to
take the action because of his high
regard for Schweitzer, the aide
said, “He (Schweitzer) clearly
violated the rules.”
Gergen said: “It’s fair to say it
(Schweitzer’s opinion) is more
pessimistic in tone and substance
than the president’s own view is.”
Schweitzer’s transfer has ample
precedent. In 1977, Army Maj.
Gen. John Singlaub was removed
from command as U.S. chief of
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