Locals rally support for arms moratorium
By MIKE RUST
Of the Emerald
A memorial in the Oregon Legislature
is giving students an opportunity to
speak out against the nuclear arms
race.
Hearings for Senate Joint Memorial
5, which calls for a bilateral moratorium
on the development and deployment of
nuclear weapons, are scheduled for
Wednesday evening at the state Capi
tol. Local peace and environmental
activists hope students will join them in
expressing support for the bill.
‘‘What we’re going to try to do is
organize transportation up to the Capi
tol to get a good number of students to
provide encouragement for the bill,”
says Kevin Thelin of the ASUO Survival
Center.
The Survival Center, along with Cit
izen Action for Lasting Security, a local
peace group, is coordinating transpor
tation to Salem for the 6 p.m. Senate
Judiciary Committee hearing. A meet
ing is scheduled at 4 p.m. Wednesday
at the Homefried Truckstop to plan
rides to Salem.
The memorial consists of three
proposals asking Congress to request
the following of the president:
• “To establish as national policy
that the United States will never be the
first nation to use nuclear weapons in
international conflict.
• “To propose to the Soviet Union a
mutual freeze on all further testing,
production and deployment of nuclear
weapons and on missiles and new air
craft designed primarily to produce
nuclear weapons.
• “If such a freeze is mutually agreed
upon, to transfer the funds that would
have been used for those purposes to
civilian use.”
The memorial has 24 sponsors in the
Oregon Legislature with Sen. George
Wingard, R-Eugene, the only holdout
among Eugene lawmakers. Thelin and
CALS member Tom Lynch both sug
gest that Wingard, in Lynch's words,
“doesn’t want to take a stand without
checking with the party ”
“People particuarly need to write
letters to Wingard,” Thelin says.
Lynch says the idea for the memorial
came from a similar effort last year in
Massachusetts. A ballot measure
calling for a nuclear weapons testing
freeze and a subsequent transfer of
funds to civilian purposes received 65
percent of the vote in western Massa
chusetts.
“These people voted for Ronald
Reagan, and then they voted for nu
clear disarmament," Lynch says. "We
thought that if we can give people an
opportunity to express themselves on
this issue, they'll come down on our
side.”
The memorial, which U S. Sen. Mark
Hatfield, R-Ore. recently endorsed, has
a "good” chance of passing in the
Senate, Lynch says. However, its fate in
the House of Representatives may
depend upon which committee reviews
it.
Supporters of the memorial are hop
ing it will be reviewed by the Environ
ment or Human Resources committees
where it has a better chance of surviv
ing, he says.
Thelin says passage of the memorial
will send a message to the federal
government.
"If it were passed just in the Oregon
Legislature, the biggest impact would
be to show people in Washington that
foreign policy does have an impact on
the individual citizen," he says.
The principal local supporting group
is CALS, which recently changed its
name from Citizen Action for Peace.
The change was made “to make a
political statement of where security
really lies," Lynch says. The organiza
tion grew out of Citizens for Safe
Energy, a political action group that
supported last year’s successful effort
to pass the nuclear moratorium ballot
measure.
Lynch says environmentalists and
peace activists are working together as
they realize they have common goals.
“My background is in the
environmental movement," he says,
“but it's silly to be worrying about
Crabtree Valley or French Pete if it's all
going to be blown up."
Information can be obtained at the
Survival Center or by contacting Lynch
at 484-4117.
Plan cuts Reagan budget i
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
chairman of the House Budget
Committee today proposed
larger budget cuts than Pres
ident Reagan has asked for
1982, and said the president
wants to spend too much for
defense but not enough for
social programs.
The committee chairman,
Rep. James Jones, D-Okla., al
so said Reagan’s tax reduction
proposal would cut too deeply
into federal revenues.
Jones said in unveiling his
alternatives to Reagan's propo
sals that he wants to “improve
on” the administration's
recommendations.
Jones would restore money
for several domestic programs
Reagan wants to cut, including
programs for community
development, health, education
and employment training and
the federal food stamps budget.
In defense spending, the pre
sident asked for $188.8 billion,
but the committee said actual
defense spending would come
to $194.1 billion under his plan.
Jones proposes spending
$189.7 billion for defense.
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