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ed that he was being tion' proposal.
What Reagan is actually proposing is clear. The Soviet Union must casinantic al us nuclear weapons in Europe - that Is the ss-4, 5o-5 and SS. 20. In return the United not deploy the Pershing Il and Cruise missiles, but will retain in place every single one of its existing nuclear weapons, as well as the entire missile submarine force in the seas that surround the USSR. Britain and France will continue possess all their nuclear weapons and to modernise mem. I nis Is supposedly a 'zero option' which the "aggressive Soviet Union is turning down. Talks In reality, in the whole history of "peace talks, few more grotesque proposals than unis nave ever been pus for rand It more WISH Johnson's claim that the North Vietnamese Havy was carrying out an offensive against the US fleet in Gulf of Tonkin, or President Carter's assertion that Cuba was posing United States by having e military threat to te few hundred Soviet troops SOLO LECTe Let us take first the SS-20 - which the Soviet Union is using to replace its more than twenty-year old SS-4 and SS-5. Both are liquid The s90 takes takes nours to prepare for firing. Above all, both are fixedsite missiles that cannot be RUMOURS circulating in the press this week suggest that one of the reasons US arms negotiator Eugene Rostow was sacked was because he was coming too close to an agreement with the Soviet Union. This agreement, apparently agreed between Paul Nitze head of the American delegation at the Intermediate Nuclear Force talks, and Yuli Kvitsinsky of the USSR would have cut back the SS-20 Soviet missiles as well as the cruise and Pershing But such an agreement would have violated Reagan's 'zero-option' position. Rostow claimsacked for violating Talleyrand's principle of diplomacy - 'no deal" Here we look at the fraud of Reagan's 'zero opmade mobile.
Since the United States is now developing allO deploying nuclear missiles that are accurate to a few less, the SS-4 and SS-5 are meters CYCH completely uscless to defend the Soviet Union agamse an American nirst strike' This would be roughly the equivalent of attemp ting to repel a modern tank attack using weapons from the first world war.
The SS-20 is a modern accurate weapon. Above all Is moone- which means that it is far less vulnerable to an attack by the American MX any more accurate American submarine- aunched weapon - or of course the Cruise and Pershing II.
However, the SS-20 has far too short a range to hit the United states. whereas the American MX, Trident, Pershing are quite capable of striking the USSR. Professor Car G Jacobsen, professor and director of Soviet Studie June University of Miami, explained the January 1982 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, . The point of the matter is... that SS-20 merely confirm and guarantee long established strike potentials against America's allies. The Cruise and Pershing II missiles, however, 8101 just reciprocal destruction of the Soviet heartland instead, just as effectively as True do inter-continental rang missiles based on US soil For there to be a true analogy Moscow would nave to deploy the SS-20s in Cuba. The fact (is) that feels that Moscow will be forced to swallow Cruise and Per shing missiles in NATO Europe, when it is Quite clear that the United States would not tolerate SS-20s outside ravana.
Professor Jacobsen could have gone even further. made it Cuban 'missile crisis' that it would fight a world war Union prevent the Soviet ambases near the United States in any way equivalent those with which the U.S. surrounds the USSR.
fact the Soviet Union ha: made repeatedly clear that it is press give up both all the nuclear weapons that it has in Europe. or aimed against it, on one simple condition Sine imperialists do likewise namely the United States. Britain and France remove their nuclear weapons.
But this proposal, 'A Nuclear Free Europe from to Portugal' Locatey TOCOLCE by imperialism because Soviet Union can only be attacked weapons. To remove all the American, French nuclear weapons would precisely make it impossible to launch a surprise attack on the USSR.
Reagan's proposal
absurd. It demanded that the Soviet Union give up all its nuclear defences in Europe, while the United states can maintain al its existing forces, the British and FICHCH HOGGERS® theirs, and the US deploy its new submarine forces.
On that basis Reagan might as well propose that so borders all on t its borders, haul winic lag, and allow une US tanks to roll in. The DOVICE Union right s jected this unserious sugthe Shey would. Reagan knew States -Reagan: still sticking to 'zero-option' fraud.
Later 70 women staged an anti-Cruise protest from the Strangers Gallery. More women staged a I sit-down in the central lobby, and were dragged away by police.
ly bad news for rack and on the political Perpose The Tebbit have of financially bleeding the Labour Parpresent system which union members the auto deca pay political levy unless , they "contract out'. The levy is an absolutely essential Women from Greenham Common lobbying Parliament in protest against Cruise Missiles last Monday proposals to stop big business hefty donatons our orineir bro fits to the Tory party ty. He intends to scrap the fact that these profits ar made out of the labour of workforce has his parently escaped notice. Party of as much of its funds possible thereby make sure that it is organisationally crippled.
must unite to Tebbit proposals. no circumstances can permit the judges and the Tory politicians,
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