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1 Thursday, March 10, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9 Nuclear weapons freeze faces tough House battle United Press International WASHINGTON — With a strong endorsement by the House Foreign Affairs Commit tee, a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons freeze goes to the full House next week for what is expected to be a tough battle. The committee approved the resolution Tuesday on a 27-9 vote, despite administration opposition. Speaker Thomas O’Neill predicted the vote in the House will be very close. The resolution also may have a tough battle ahead of it be cause it is still unacceptable to President Reagan. In a speech in Orlando, Fla., Reagan warned against “simple- minded appeasement” in the nuclear arms race with Moscow. “The truth is,” Reagan said, “a freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud, for that is merely the illusion of peace. The reality is, we must find peace through strength.” The president said a freeze at current levels would be virtually impossible to verify, would delay the modernization of allied nuc lear forces and would remove any incentive for the Soviets to negotiate arms reductions. As the committee voted, thousands of demonstrators ral lied outside the Capitol for and against the measure. The resolution approved by the Democratic-dominated committee was sponsored by chairman Clement Zablocki, D- Wis. It calls for negotiations with the Soviet Union aimed at a “mutual and verifiable freeze on, and reductions in, nuclear weapons.” It, however, does not call for an immediate freeze. A similar resolution was approved by the committee last year, but administration opposi tion caused it to fail on the House floor by two votes. At the committee’s two-hour session, the panel also received cables from U.S. arms nego tiators warning approval of a freeze resolution would under mine their efforts to reach arms agreements with the Soviet Union. Paul Nitze, U.S. representa tive' at strategic arms reduction talks in Geneva, Switzerland, said the resolution would make arms talks with Moscow “im mensely more difficult if not im possible.” The resolution would not be binding on the president. Reagan maintains ‘peace by strength’ 11 he state il Conduct to Farrant Coo e. e the comirii position onti tox foranifat ss a court I miles .ind! I they had i Guess how many calories photo by Ann Friesen United Press International WASH INGTON — President Reagan painted a threatening picture Wednesday of Soviet military power and said his de fense policies will demonstrate the United States’ resolve not to allow the military balance to tip against the United States. Vowing the United States will not start fights or be the first to use aggression, Reagan pressed his case for “peace through strength” in a statement issued along with “Soviet Military Pow er” a new Pentagon assessment of Soviet military might. “We design our defense program not to further ambi tions, but to counter threats,” Reagan said. iSandy Phillips and Matt Tokeim, both juniors from San Antonio, do their best to count the calories in these jars of jelly beans and carrot sticks. The calorie-counting contest is being sponsored by the Student Dietetic Association to inform people about about National Nutrition Month. Soviets preparing arms for long nuclear battle dattox s ml would be nterracial i n break the leffield said i than mam;* pie. >ed a long stopped it n January." ■ United Press International | WASHING FON — 1 he Pen tagon unveiled a glimpse of the Soviet Union’s mushrooming i } -j i ') ] arsenal and its preparations for '111 (W war in outer space, and Def ense Secretary Caspar Weinberger 1 said Wednesday the Kremlin is ] ( )()1 developing the capability to fight a prolonged nuclear war. |p Weinberger said the Soviets KLRN tdcv have increased the number of easing mobile SS-20 medium range cat signal, missiles from 345 to 351 within ansky said c the past few days, with 250 to in a lettet 275 of them aimed at Western mplainedofaj Europe and the remainder at litioti for "lii Asia. ng any medifllr Weinberger, at the same tine, held a news conference at ed American- lh(: . Penta S un lo promote publi- i cation of “Soviet Military Power Ul> (ht 1983,” a declassification of sec- omats m wfr . . , ,„„ r ret information portraying a encourage«... i / n . . ^ military machine that grinds out missiles, bombers, tanks and usky als° other weapons faster than the ieet with Serf United States, re Shultz in"® The defense chief said Mos- * returning cow’s build-up means the Soviets “are simply doing what their doctrine always has talked ab out, and that is world domina tion.” Weinberger said the mod ernization of Soviet strategic nuclear systems, including a new bomber and two new intercon tinental range missiles, “sug gests they are developing the capability of Fighting a pro longed nuclear war. “What we are seeing is a Soviet ability and a Soviet plan, developing through the acquisi tion of their weapons and their doctrines and their civil defense and air defense, to fight a prot racted nuclear war. 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