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United Press International
COLORADO SPRINGS,
Colo. — In a show of unity
against the Soviet Union,
NATO defense ministers unani
mously turned down Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev’s
offer to freeze deployment of
medium-range missiles aimed at
Western Europe.
The 13 ministers, winding up
a two-day meeting at the Broad
moor Hotel, reaffirmed their
“strong support” Wednesday of
the Reagan administration’s
offer to halt deployment of new
missiles in Europe if the Soviets
removed the SS-20s. But the
Western leaders restated their
decision to deploy 572 new mis
siles beginning next year.
The position of the NATO
ministers was explained in a
communique issued at the close
of a conference of the Nuclear
Planning Group.
NATO Secretary General
Joseph Luns of Belgium said
Denmark had reservations ab
out the group’s rejection of the
Soviet proposal which was made
March 16, but those reservations
involved only a technical issue.
“Vou can take it that it (the
vote) was unanimous,” Luns
said. “There was no hint of put
ting in a veto.”
He said Denmark had sug
gested the Soviet proposal be
discussed at the foreign ministe
rial level.
In the communique, the
NATO leaders said a freeze on
SS-20 deployment would only
maintain the Soviet monopoly in
longer-range, land-based,
medium-range missiles.
It said existing SS-20s could
remain in place, but NATO
would be prohibited from de
ploying such missiles.
“It is well known that these
Soviet missiles, given their range
and the ease with which they can
be relocated, are a threat to
NATO wherever they are lo
cated,” the communique said.
“These proposals would, there-
NATO rejection of the
Soviet proposal came as
no surprise, and fol
lowed a similar stance
taken by the Reagan ad
ministration.
fore, leave the Soviet Union free
to continue its buildup east of
the Urals, well within the range
of NATO Europe.”
The NATO ministers again
called on the Soviet Union to
match the United States’ nego
tiating in good faith.
And they repeated their re
solve, in the absence of such
negotiations, to begin deploying
108 Pershing I Is and 464 cruise
missiles in five European coun
tries beginning in December
1983.
NATO rejection of the Sovie -
proposal came as no surprise
and followed a similar stance
taken by the Reagan adminis
tration. The U.S. delegatior
had sought NATO’s endorse
ment as a demonstration of
unity.
U.S. Defense Secretary Gas
par Weinberger told a news con
ference the Soviet offer was no
directed to achieving the zen
option proposal made by the
United States at the start of the
arms reduction talks in Genev;,
Nov. 30. Zero option is the code
word for the offer not to deploy ;
572 Pershing II and cruise mis'
siles.
He said a freeze of SS-20 mis ;,
sile deployment in European.
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free to manufacture all they>
want (of SS-20s) and deploy alt
they want east of the Urals. U
Weinberger, who left after"
the meeting to begin a 10-day
trip to Asia, called the gathering ■
“a very successful meeting, if
very unified meeting.”
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Five highway
construction contractors in
dicted on federal charges of bid
rigging on Texas highway de
partment contracts have
reached settlements in separate
antitrust cases filed by the state.
Attorney General Mark
White announced Wednesday
that the five firms had reached
agreed judgments totaling more
than $960,000.
The five were among 21 com
panies and 16 individuals
named in federal suits that
charge Texas highway contracts
were inflated as far back as 1976
by advance decisions which de
termined which company would
be the low bidder.
White also had filed antitrust
suits against eight Lubbock con
tractors. Wednesday he
announced another antitrust
suit, this one against the San
Antonio firm of Schwope Inc.
and its secretary-treasurer.
“We either are negotiating or
are evaluating the status of the
remainder of the companies
charged by the federal govern
ment with an eye to filing suit
against them,” White said.
White said the five firms that
reached agreed judgments
Wednesday were E.W. Hable &
Sons Inc. of Tyler, C.H. Allison
Paving Co. of San Antonio,
Schwabe and Mikey’s Paving
Inc. of Shiner, and the Lubbock
firms of Boswell and Grafton
Inc. and Stafford Construction much money the state may have
Inc. lost because of charged bid-
Officials did not disclose how rigging.
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