Hatfield and Reagan contrast on arms issue
By Dave Berns
Of the Emerald
“President Reagan and his
administration have held a
disgraceful posture in dealing
with arms control,” an aide to
U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield, R
Ore., said Wednesday.
“The president is sincerely
misinformed about these things
(arms control), and some of his
views do not mesh with the
reality of the survival of the
human race,” said Rick Rolf, a
foreign policy adviser to the
senator.
Rolf made his comments
before the University Arms Con
trol Forum in 177 Lawrence.
In light of Hatfield’s and
Reagan’s differences, Rolf ex
plained the senator’s role as
honorary Oregon co-chair of the
president's re-election effort. As
a Republican and as chairman
of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, Hatfield must have
access to the president, he said.
Rolf distanced Hatfield from
the policies of the president,
and outlined the differences
between the two men in the
field of arms control.
“Senator Hatfield has been
successful over the past four
years in cutting the proposed
Reagan defense budget by $50
billion,” Rolf said.
Rolf went on to say that Hat
field, along with Senator Ed
ward Kennedy, D-Mass., has
been a key leader in the Senate
for the nuclear freeze initiative.
During the last congressional
session, Kennedy and Hatfield
were co-sponsors of a bill which
called for an immediate freeze
in the deployment of nuclear
weapons by both the United
States and the Soviet Union.
Opponents of the bill claimed
that the United States would not
have the ability to verify Soviet
adherence to such an
agreement.
“The question of verification
is a phony argument for a lot of
people,” Rolf said. “If both
countries want to verify, they
can. If satellites can read license
plates, we can verify.
“Whatever is not verifiable
will not be frozen,” Rolf said.
Hatfield also opposes the
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Change in ’84 roasts Reagan
By Julie Shippen
Of Ibo Emerald
Five University represen
tatives of the Change in ’84
organization met Wednesday
afternoon to give Pres, Ronald
Reagan the roasting of his
career, which they and other
members of the local group
hope will end with the Nov. 6
election.
Since its beginning in early
September, the University’s
Change in '84 group has been
working to increase voter
registration. But the primary
goal of the organization's 26
statewide branches is to
eliminate Reagan from the
presidency.
Wednesday’s five-member
panel discussion, scheduled as
part of this week’s ASUO
sponsored political symposium,
presented anti-Republican
arguments in the areas of civil
rights, nuclear arms, women’s
rights and economics. '
Economics Prof. Ed Whitelaw
posed the question of whether
Americans are better off now,
after Reagan’s four years in
office.
Whiteiaw said the belief that
the country is doing better is
based on a number of myths.
Federal spending, for example,
is not down as stated but has in
creased under Reagan by 30 per
cent, consuming 24 percent of
the nation's gross national pro
duct for a peacetime record, he
said.
The belief that the United
States has experienced
economic growth under Reagan
also is a myth, Whiteiaw said.
During the past four years real
GNP has grown at an average
rate of 3.01 percent, hardly
more than the 2.95 percent rate
under Carter’s administration,
he added.
Americans’ tax burden also
has increased under Reagan,
especially for those in the
$10,000 and under bracket,
Whiteiaw said. Taxes in the
middle- and upper-income
ranges, on the other hand, are
either the same or lower than
they were four years ago, he
said.
Prof. Aaron Novick, director
of the University’s molecular
biology institute, came to the
meeting armed with few
statistics but many strong
statements on Reagan’s involve
ment in the nuclear arms issue.
“In the last 25 years, Reagan
has taken an adversary position
in every effort towards arms
control,” Novick said. "What
worries me the most is the at
mosphere position he
engenders by intimidating
questioning of our own policies
in this area.”
Novick called Reagan’s ad
ministration a “demagogic
waving of patriotism” and said
the president is blocking a
nuclear arms freeze.
“1 see no indication that a
nuclear war is impossible.” he
said. “I don’t have a lot of con
fidence unless we can find some
sort of leadership. I think it’s
urgent, vital that we get rid of
this monster.”
German consul pays visit
By Michael Doke
Of the Emerald
It's ironic that someone
should come from an old coun
try with a new constitution to a
relatively new country with an
old constitution to compare the
two documents, said West Ger
many’s consul general to Seattle
on Wednesday.
Eva Lindemann visited the
University to give political
science Prof. Arthur Handhardt
the “award of German Friend
ship” and took some time from
her schedule to talk with a
political science class about the
governing documents of two na
tions governing documents.
“No other nation in the world
has stuck together with their
constitution so tong (as has the
United States).” Lindemann
said. “My country is on its third
constitution, drafted 35 years
ago."
The Bonn Constitution was
written to meet the challenges
of West Germany in the 20th
century, she said. Like all
democratic constitutions, its
focus concerns liberty, social
justice and the rule of law, she
said.
The power of the European
document is centered in the
parliament, while the U.S. Con
stitution divides power among
the executive, judicial and
legislative branches, she said.
“Our chancellor is elected for
a four-year term by the majority
party in the Parliament. But on
any day, he can be voted out of
office if the opposition has even
the slightest majority,”
Lindemann said. “It is up to the
opposition to name a successor
at the same time.”
The majority party “makes or
breaks the government” in West
Germany, she said.
The U.S. president is both the
head of state and government
but in West Germany the
chancellor only heads the
government, Lindemann noted.
“The position of the Presi
dent of the United States is truly
the hardest job in the world,”
she said. In times of crisis it is
the president who must control
stability. When times are easier,
Congress attempts to gain
power, and there is a constant
struggle with the president, she
said.
“And he is the leader of the
world coalition against
communism.”
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Rick Rolf
president’s “Build Down” pro
posal, by which the United
States would scrap two older
missiles for every new missile.
Under this plan the United
States “can build an extremely
potent first strike force,” Rolf
said.
Instead, Hatfield believes the
United States must concentrate
on developing a defensive
posture.
Hatfis’d also opposes the
development of space
weaponry.
“Rational people must avoid
the militarization of space,”
Rolf said.
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