ige 10 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1981 National Vlissile talks to begin Nov. 30; results a long way off United Press International WASHINGTON — The United tates and the Soviet Union will art medium-range missile talks a Nov. 30 at opposite ends of the egotiating spectrum. It will like- 1 he months before real give-and- tke begins. In the meantime, the United tates intends to proceed toward eploying a new generation of su er-accurate missiles in western lurope and the Soviets show no igns of slowing the production of leir triple warhead SS-20 mis- iles. According to U.S. intelligence, Reagan announces ‘zero option’, Brezhnev may not approve the Soviets have been adding mis siles at the rate of more than one a week. Analysis Wednesday, President Reagan adopted the concept known as the “zero option” for eliminating all nuclear missiles in Europe. But Leonid Brezhnev appears unlike ly to appreciate Reagan’s version. Essentially, Reagan s proposal would require the Soviet Union to dismantle its approximately 270 SS-20 and other missiles while the western alliance does nothing but promise not to deploy its own planned 572 new systems there. The U.S. and Soviet positions can be seen as mirror images of each other: —The Soviets want an immedi ate freeze at present levels, which would leave them with about 1,100 medium-range warheads in place and with the western alliance having none of this type of warhead in Europe in the Amer ican arsenal. —The United States wants the Soviets to scrap all of their medium-range missiles in ex change for a western commitment not to start stationing its own medium-range missiles in Europe. Complicating that difficult dia logue is an even more basic dis agreement about what is to be dis cussed. The Soviets make the point that the western counting is deficient, since it doesn’t include such weapons as the American fighterbombers in Europe that can reach Soviet territory with nuclear weapons, nor the formid able British and French nuclear arsenals, which are also aimed at the Soviet Union. The Americans, who will repre sent the West in the missile talks, do not believe the Soviet claims that some of the older Soviet mis siles are being scrapped. Lurking in the background is the frequently repeated warning from the United States that any Soviet military intervention in Po land would have profound and lasting consequences, including, presumably, the scrapping of all arms talks, including those on strategic and medium-range mis siles. However, there is a bright spot. Both sides apparently are sincere in waiiting to cut back nuclear arsenals which are not only expen sive, hut inherent!) dangers Both sides also apparently realit that the medium-range talks®: not take place in a vacuum; fc have to take intoconsiderationllt whole range of nuclear and ax- ventional weaponry. Both understand there is ^ point in reducing one fan weapons if the resources of U sides are then to be diverted In- ward building other kinds of ami nuclear or conventional. Thus the medium-range missl talks could be an opening towardi wider discussion about the redu. tion of all kinds of arms. ||» mm Pitcher perfect erlancer tH E exception Gross national product up during third quarter United Press International The government’s broad gauge of economic activity — the Gross national product — actually rose 0.6 percent during the third quar ter, the Commerce Department said Thursday. But economists said the outlook is still bleak. Last month, the department had reported that the CNP for the July-September quarter showed a 0.6 percent contraction. But Thursday, it issued the revised, inflation-adjusted figure showing the surprising turnaround. The market value of America’s goods and services, projected in annual rates, was more than $2 trillion, the department said. GNP was up a strong 8.6 per cent from January through March, then dropped 1.6 percent from April through June. The 0.6 percent increase in the third quarter means there were not two consecutive quarterly de clines, as previously reported. Two quarters of decline is one fac tor that economists use to deter mine if a recession is on. But economist Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a pri vate forecasting firm in Lexington, Mass., said Thursday’s revision does not change anything about the outlook. The economy will still drop this quarter by 4 or 5 percent, he pre dicted . Economist Michael Evans, of Evans Economics, said that since a weak economy buys less, im ports went down, raising the GNP. “The recession still holds,’’ he said, “but it looks like it’s going to be another one-quarter wonder. ” The GNP figures are routinely revised three times to take account of additional inventory and import data before becoming final, with the biggest variation likely to come in the first revision delivered today. The government’s inflation me asure contained in the GNP fi gures, called the “implicit pn deflator, jumped 9.5 percental the third quarter, a markedg terioration from the against inflation in the preiiii 1 quarter when the same figures 6.4 percent. In another bit of unex; good news, corporate after-l profits rose 0.5 percent in third quarter after dropping!] percent in the second quartet The department repd Wednesday that despite aOip] cent rise in personal incomeariii new income tax break, Araerii cut spending 0.2 percent,in ber, saving the money. 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