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Reagan wants
year of dialogue
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan said Wednesday
night that 1985 should be “a
year of dialogue and negotia
tions” with the Soviet Union.
But he said he intends to press
ahead with space-based anti
missile research even while put
ting his ‘‘Star Wars” plan ‘‘on
the table with everything else”
when arms talks resume.
The president told a national
ly televised news conference
that the United States will be
“flexible, patient and determin
ed” when the talks resume,
with the ultimate objective of
“complete elimination of
nuclear weapons.”
He said there would be "no
preconditions” for the talks.
But on one main sticking point
— the $26 billion space research
effort which the Soviets want
halted — the president said,
“we have made it clear that we
are going forward on research.”
Asked whether Star Wars
would be a bargaining chip, he
said, “No, oh, no.” Reagan said
he does not like the term “Star
Wars,” and said his goal is to
develop a moral and humane
system, which would destroy
weapons instead of people.
“Our objective in these talks
will be the reduction of nuclear
weapons.... Our ultimate ob
jective is complete elimination
of nuclear weapons,” he said.
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The news conference was
Reagan’s first in six months,
and came 11 days before he
takes the oath of office for a se
cond term.
It was a session dominated by
questions about the news that
the United States and the Soviet
Union would resume arms
negotiations, but the president
also discussed the domestic
economy, the recent high-level
staff shakeup in his administra
tion and prospects of a summit
with his Soviet counterpart.
He said he intends to press
later in the year for simplifica
tion of the income tax code, but
stood by his opposition to a tax
increase, saying it would be
"counterproductive” to the
economic recovery. He brushed
aside projections saying that his
own deficit reduction plan
would not meet his objectives.
"Those projections — frankly, I
pay no attention to them,” he
said.
The president also said that if
an "overwhelming majority” of
Congress proposed canceling
next year’s Social Security cost
of-living increases to reduce the
deficit, “I would have to look at
that situation and what 1 was
faced with."
Reagan campaigned for re
election as an opponent of tax
increases and reductions in
Social Security benefits for cur
rent or future recipients.
Atiyeh opposes
Army weapons
HERMISTON, Ore. (AP) —
Gov. Vic Atiyeh says if he had
his “druthers,” the Army
would destroy obsolete
chemical weapons at the
Umatilla Army Depot where
they are stored, rather than
move them to a disposal plant
in Utah.
The Army is studying
whether to build a $42 million
facility to destroy the weapons,
which contain a deadly nerve
agent, or to transport them by
truck, plane or train to an ex
isting disposal plant in Tooele,
Utah.
The governor, who has said
he is opposed to weapons con
taining nerve agents, said he
would rather not have the
weapons in the state at all, but
that decision was not up to him.
He had praise, however, for
the Army’s handling of the
munitions. Atiyeh described
their safety precautions as
"meticulous.”
Since November 1983, the Ar
my has been destroying
weapons leaking the nerve
agent GB. chemically known as
isopropyl methyl
phosphonofluoridate. It is a col
orless, odorless liquid that
when released acts like a human
insecticide. If even a small
quantity is breathed in or ab
sorbed by the skin, it will kill
within four minutes. One M-55
rocket contains 10 pounds of
the chemical.
A “leaking” rocket or projec
tile is one that shows signs of
chemicals escaping within the
bomb casing, said Susan Voss,
an Army spokeswoman.
A mobile unit is used to
remove the chemical agent from
the bomb and destroy the cas
ing. Initially, the Army iden
tified 123 rockets, land mines
and projectiles for destruction.
Since then, an additional 236
have been discovered. The team
of specialists has disposed of
197 of the munitions and is ex
pected to complete the re
mainder by May or June, Ms.
Voss said.
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