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Pershing The Cruise is also extremely chean as missile svstems go. At a cost of $750,000 each - less than the price of a modern bat— current US plans call for the production of 4,000 to 5,000 of these tiny but deadly nuclear missiles.
December 1979, NATO voted to deploy 464 of the Tomahawk version of the Western Europe in 1983. With a range 2,000 miles, LIC Cruise could hit major cities in the Soviet Union from West European launching The fourth new system, the II also scheduled for deployment Western Europe. A highly acducted in the were reported However Agency (DIA). counter report, low-yield nuclear DIA, ficially released.
eagerness African top and scientists recent visit South The delegation, General van mitary intengence It was tht a flap awkward questions.
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to: SCD PO BOx nuclear weapons tests 2XP. payable to "Socialist detecting them. FOR THE second time in a little more than a year, an unacknow!edged nuclear test has been conAtlantic Ocean, south west of South Africa. The tell-tale flash of the explosion was secretly recorded on 15 December 1980, by US monitoring devices.
For more than two months the US Government tomoe to kee• newe of the test a secret. But some details of it finally leaked to the Us press anc in an February syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak.
Washington had also tried to cover up the previous nuclear test which was detected by a US satellite on 22 September 1979. The official report on the sighting issued by the Carter ad ministration tried to explain it away as a meteor striking the satellite.
the Defence Intelligence insted that the en which drew weapons test. together with the CIA, believes that the test was conducted jointly by the South African and Israeli govern ments. The DIA s report was never of reason for Washington's to play. down the sianiticance of the blasts is its own complicity in the development of the South nuclear programme. Many South African nuclear engineers were trained in the United States, and Washington has supplied the apartheid regime with enriched uranium fuel, which can be used for weapons production.
• According to the Daily Telegraph, a by five officers 'has started speculation that South Africa may have been putting out feelers for American "understanding ' of nuclear tests planned by Pretoria'.
led by Brigadier der Westhuizen; , head of Waut courtesy calls' on staff at the DIA and the White House National Security Council.
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developed apparently the press had begun to ask of its observance of the Nations embargo on arms sales to South Africa the US has an visits by senior African military officers. The Denartment claimed that the South African delegation had got their false pretences the Africans had described themselves as 'government officials'.
But this doesn't stand up: of the delegation, Rear Admiral WN Du South African defence attache in Washington, was expelled from the US in 1979 And John Fisher, president of the right-wing American Security Council which invited the delegation, disclos ed that he had written to the State inform them of the He got no The South African government has made little secret of its optimism that who recently lauded South as an ally against 'communist expansion', will review the US's arms Now it seems the South Africans want the US to keep quiet about its - the US is the only country with satellites capable of Socialist Challenge 26 March 1981