Reagan: Detente ‘one-way street for Soviets’
Ronald Reagan
Photo by Ken Shn
Favors using new technology as SALT talk ‘lever'
It may be time for the United States to play its
trump card, military technology, in the next
scheduled Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
negotiations with the Soviet Union. So says Ronald
Reagan, former Republican governor of California
and guest speaker for the Lane County Republican
Central Committee fund raising dinner Sunday
night.
Reagan, speaking at a news conference Sun
day afternoon, said the time has come for the United
States to realize detente with the Soviet Union is not
what it was supposed to be. “Detente has been a
failure because it has just become a one-way street
for the Soviets,” Reagan said.
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
“There is really one thing lacking in the SALT
talks — that is to negotiate you must have an alter
native. You must be able to reach an agreement
and the Soviets aren't willing to reach an agree
ment. They’re not reasonable,” Reagan said.
According to Reagan, the United States should
use newly developed scientific technology as a
“trump card" in the SALT negotiations and ’’hint at
an arms race to make the Soviets realize that they
must stop being so stubborn.”
Speaking on the development of a tactical nuc
lear missile which kills by radiation alone, Reagan
said the people of the United States haven’t been
told enough about the truth of the arms race. If they
were told, he maintains, they would probably call for
increased defense spending.
While his former 1976 presidential running
mate, Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., predicted that if
Reagan ran for President in 1980 he would be “un
stoppable,” Reagan says he is undecided about his
political future. “Whether or not I'd be a candidate in
1980 will be one of those things to be decided along
down the road,” he said.
“I think the issues in the next campaign will be
more important than the candidates,” Reagan exp
lained. “I can't say whether or not I will run because
the whole cast of characters may change between
now and then."
A nationally syndicated radio commentator and
newspaper columnist, Reagan hinted that he would
remain an outside political observer. “I'm not one to
minimize the powers of the press,” he said.
The first six months of the Carter administration
have been “long on style and short on substance,”
especially on human rights, Reagan concluded.
“This administration has been hypocritical on
human rights because, while Carter was calling for
an end to imports of Rhodesian chrome because of
their practices, he was opening up negotiations with
Cuba and Vietnam, the two countries that have the
worst human rights violation records in the world,"
Reagan explained.
Carter has placed human rights restrictions on
some countries who were historically our allies,
Reagan said, and ignored the violations of others.
In his only public appearance in Oregon this
year, Reagan spoke on the future of the Republican
Party at a $25-a-plate fund raising dinner at the
Rodeway Inn Sunday night, telling the audience that
there is a “new majority” emerging who believe in
the same ideals as the Republican party. “There are
a great number of people who don’t realize it, but we
have been saying what they are thinking for some
time,” he said.
Board debates public works money allocation
By E G. WHITE-SWIFT
Of the Emerald
Spending $1.45 million dollars
in public works money is not as
easy as it would seem.
Lane County's board of com
missioners faced that problem at
their regular meeting last week,
debating for three hours which
county projects deserved part of
the money expected in August
from the federal Economic De
velopment Administration (EDA).
Cooperation and communication
broke down several times during
the debate.
Complicating the decision for
the commissioners were two fac
tors: they had to choose from
over 20 construction projects to
taling $10.5 million and they were
unsure the exact amount of EDA
money they would receive.
In addition to choosing pro
jects, EDA officials required the
commissioners to ‘ prioritize”
their choices in the event that less
than $1.45 million is awarded.
Proposals for spending the
money ranged from rebuilding
parts of the county fairgrounds to
building a new fire station in the
Santa Clara district just north of
Eugene. Other project candidates
included park developments, ap
plying the funds toward a new
pioneer museum and funding a
wide range of rual special
district s projects.
Commissioner Archie Weins
tein favored spending all the
money in rural areas of the
county, saying that over $17 mill
ion has been spent on public
works projects in the Eugene
Springfield area in the last six
years, while the rural areas have
been allocated very few funds.
Commissioner Bob Wood ar
gued that the rural special dis
tricts should be responsible for
their own projects. He stated that
the rural residents should learn to
tax themselves when they out
grow their water and fire protec
tion systems, rather than depend
ing on the county to bail them out.
After Wood and Commissioner
Jerry Rust indicated they would
only support three of 7 rural pro
ject applications, Weinstein com
plained that Wood and Rust al
ways outvote him two to one.
He even offered to vote no in ad
vance on whatever the other
commissioners proposed, as the
following exchange between the
commissioners indicates:
Weinstein: “You can have my
no vote: let's do it that way.”
Rust: "Are you going to vote
against Florence?
Weinstein: “I'm even voting no
now; you’ve got the 2-to-1 so go
ahead and do what your going to
do."
Rust: Are you going to vote
against Santa Clara?”
Weinstein: “I’m not going to do
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anything; I’m just through with it;
maybe when we get the five
commissioners I’ll be able to get a
break a year and a half from now.
I’m just stuck. That’s all there is to
it and I’m willing to^dmit it.”
Wood: “I've tried to be con
ciliatory, if you vote no in advance
I’ll oppose it.”
Weinstein: “I’m not going to
make any more suggestions on
how to spend the money. I’m not
giving up, but I’m not going to
bump my head against this wood
wall. You fellas go ahead and do
it, you're doing it anyway. You
have done it for five months so go
ahead and decide what you want
to fund.”
Wood and Rust denied any
conspiracy to outvote Weinstein,
who promised not to leave but
said all he would do was chair the
meeting, refusing to discuss the
projects any further.
After the dust settled, Wood
and Rust voted in favor of allocat
ing funds for remodeling the court
house to provide more space for
a new district court judge. They
also allocated funds for remodel
ing the county annex to hold
many of the county’s community
health and social services offices
that are now scattered in 13 rent
ed buildings throughout the
metropolitan area.
These two projects, estimated
to cost almost $1 million, received
the number one priority from
Wood and Rust. The following
rural area projects have the sec
ond highest priority for the EDA
funds:
• $167,000 to upgrade the exist
ing Florence wastewater treat
ment facility, which would allow
that city to lift its moratorium on
future sewer connections (which
limits growth).
• $187,000 for an Oakridge
water systems improvement
which will provide better fire pro
tection for areas of the town.
• $294,079 to partially fund a
new firehouse in the northern
section of the Santa Clara district.
The lowest priority projects
would allocate funds to develop
two county parks: Camp Lane
and Jasper Park. The commis
sioners intend to apply for Bureau
of Outdoor Recreation grants to
develop those parks and projects
in Alton Baker Park that were not
chosen for EDA funding.
The commissioners also tenta
tively agreed to “come up with a
package" to rebuild the county
fairgrounds, including the horse
arena.
In other actions last week the
commissioners:
• agreed to hold a public hearing
July 6 to hear comments on the
boundaries for the new five
member commission that goes
into effect next year. A group of
Santa Clara residents promised
to offer an alternative plan at the
1:30 p.m. hearing.
• approved the Public
Defender s office contract for
another year at an expense of
$336,000;
• approved an update work
schedule for the 1990 Metropoli
tan Plan;
• authorized a study of the im
pact of the county’s land-use reg
ulations on housing.
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