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Soviet war booklet
hits U.S. military
MOSCOW
A glossy booklet on the so
called "U.S. war machine" ap
pears to be Moscow's latest bid
to turn Western Europeans
against America over the issue
of nuclear armaments
The 78-page publication,
titled "Whence The Threat To
Peace." is the Kremlin's latest
answer to the Pentagon s own
99-page pamphlet, "Soviet Mili
tary Power," which last Sep
tember depicted the Soviets as
having achieved military super
iority.
The Soviet booklet released
this month accuses the Reagan
adminstration of launching an
extensive arms buildup to attain
U S military superiority over the
Soviet Union “in the next tew
years
Maps portray the Soviet
Union virtually under siege from
U S ground bases, vessels and
aircraft Charts purport to show
big flows of weapons from
American arsenals to overseas
allies
Nuclear weapons of the Unit
ed States. Britain and France
confront" the Soviets in Eu
rope. the booklet says, while
China s nuclear forces "threa
ten' from the East
The publication seeks to
prove that "rough parity” exists
between NATO and the Warsaw
Pact in manpower, aircraft, nu
clear missiles and other ar
maments
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The Soviet statements are not
new, and the booklet offers no
new evidence to buttress asser
tions — repeated daily in the
state-run Soviet media — of U S
warmongering
U S State Department spo
kesman Dean Fischer on Mon
day dismissed the pamphlet as a
"slick repackaging job" of
standard Soviet propaganda
themes
The Soviet pamphlet seems to
be aimed at "peace
movements" in the Nether
lands, Belgium, West Germany
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