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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’
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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.
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| WASHING FON — 1 he Pen
tagon unveiled a glimpse of the
Soviet Union’s mushrooming
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Secretary Caspar Weinberger
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fight a prolonged nuclear war.
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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-
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missiles, bombers, tanks and
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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.
Weinberger also said the
Soviets place a high priority on
space warfare and said they plan
to launch a manned space sta
tion for military purposes by
1990.
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