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Reagan rips Soviet policies at Strasbourg
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — As a
third of Europe’s parliament waved pro
test signs, heckled or walked out
Wednesday, President Ronald Reagan
accused the Soviets, wartime allies turn
ed adversaries, of trying to “spread their
dominance by force.”
Reagan also stated that his “Star
Wars” program offers the best promise of
perpetuating the 40 years of peace since
V-E Day.
Addressing officials from 10 allies,
Reagan strongly warned the West not to
be complacent about the Kremlin’s
military intentions.
Reagan complained that Moscow is
developing a dangerous new multi
warhead mobile missile, known in the
West as SSX-24, that could not be
monitored for arms control.
“The Soviet Union is undermining
stability and the basis for mutual deter
rence,” Reagan said. “It has
chosen... to build nuclear forces clearly
designed to strike first, and thus to
disarm their adversary.’’
But he said his Star Wars or Strategic
Defense Initiative to find a defense
against ballistic missiles offered a way to
resolve the East-West nuclear deadlock.
“The state of modern technology may
soon make possible for the first time the
ability to use non-nuclear systems to
defeat ballistic missiles,” Reagan said.
He also renewed proposals to reduce
military tensions by, among other steps,
setting up a military-to-military com
munications link supplementing the
Washington-Moscow hotline.
When Reagan criticized the Soviet
Union, about 30 deputies, most from the
British Labor party, walked out of the
assembly. Reagan smiled and said, “You
know, I’ve learned something useful.
Maybe if 1 talk long enough in my own
Congress, some of those will walk out.”
The remaining audience applauded
loudly.
About a third of the deputies either
joined the walkout, sat silent with arms
folded or waved brightly colored signs
with slogans, such as “Hands Off
Nicaragua,” “Star Wars, No" and
“Nuclear Freeze Now.”
At first, Reagan had ignored the pro
tests, but when a chorus of boos greeted
his declaration that there were "Soviet
efforts to profit from and stimulate
regional conflicts in Central America,”
the president grimaced, paused and in
terjected, "They haven’t been there. I
have.”
In closing, Reagan tacked on this re
joinder: "We’ve seen evidence here of
your faith in democracy, in the ability of
some to speak up feeely as they preferred
to speak. And yet I can’t help but remind
all of us that some who take advantage of
that right of democracy seem unaware
that if the government that they would
advocate became reality, no one would
have that freedom to speak up again.”
After four hours in France, Reagan
flew to Lisbon, Portugal, the final stop
his 10-day tour of Europe that began in
West Germany with a seven-nation
economic summit meeting. He returns to
Washington on Friday.
Creation of East-West crisis centers urged
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nuclear
crisis expert believes proposals Presi
dent Ronald Reagan outlined to the
European Parliament on reducing the
chance of accidental war may be a
prelude to advocating creation of
U.S.-Soviet crisis centers.
“I think he’s testing the waters,” said
William Ury, director of a Harvard Law
School nuclear negotiation project and
author of a book that urges the establish
ment of full-fledged crisis centers to pre
vent East-West war by error.
Ury and other proponents of crisis
management say twin crisis centers
should be set up in Washington and
Moscow, each staffed with Soviets and
Americans.
Working side by side, these military
and diplomatic employees would
become so familiar with each other and
each nation’s operating procedures that
they would be able to work together dur
ing crises to avert war by miscalculation.
The centers should be linked by giant
video screens and operate under set
emergency safety procedures, according
to Ury.
Reagan has not endorsed such a con
cept yet. But buried beneath the anti
Soviet rhetoric in his speech marking the
40th anniversary of the end of World
War II in Europe on Wednesday, the
president detailed four actions he said
could help reduce East-West tension.
They were: exchanging observers at
U.S. and Soviet military exercises: in
stituting regular meetings between U.S.
and Soviet military leaders; agreeing on
certain confidence-building measures
such as renouncing the use of force, and
creating a military-to-military hotline.
Such a hotline, similar to the one that
now links the White House and the
Kremlin, could reduce the chances of
misunderstanding and misinterpretation
by swapping information about routine
military activities, the president said.
“Over time, it might evolve into a risk
reduction mechanism for rapid com
munication and exchange of data in time
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of crisis.” Reagan said.
The proposals have been made before,
but Ury said he believed the Soviets may
be more receptive now, in view of their
new leadership and the slight thaw in
previously frozen U.S.-Soviet relations.
The Senate last June adopted a resolu
tion calling for creation of such "risk
reduction” centers. During a recent con
ference in Atlanta, former Presidents
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter joined
with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin in urging the superpowers to
"address with the utmost priority the
question of establishing mechanisms
aimed at crsis prevention and crisis
management,” Ury said.
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Furor over racist book
forces Hall to resign
WASHINGTON (AP) — Marianne Mele Hall, chair
woman of a government panel who has come under fire for
her work on a book that says blacks “insist on preserving
their jungle freedoms,” submitted her resignation Wednes
day, the White House said.
“She thought that the best thing to do would be to
resign,” said Dale Petroskey, an assistant White House press
secretary.
Petroskey said Hall was not asked to resign but had been
holding discussions with the White House in making her
decision.
The press aide said he was not aware of Hall ever talking
to the president directly, but that her resignation letter was
addressed to Reagan.
“As far as I know, it will be accepted,” he said.
He said the resignation was effective immediately.
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Senate aeieats ouagei pacKage
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican
controlled Senate on Wednesday rejected a
Democratic attempt to restore billions of dollars
in proposed domestic spending cuts and raise
taxes by $72 billion over three years to reduce
federal deficits.
The vote was 65-35 against restoration.
“There are no scapegoats and no free
riders,” said Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., arguing
for a deficit-reduction plan that also would have
delayed increases in Social Security cost of living
benefits for six months, scaled back President
Reagan’s defense buildup, and frozen spending
on many domestic programs.
“Corporate taxes today are an outrage,” add
ed Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., saying that
personal income tax rates would not rise under
the proposal.
But GOP Leader Robert Dole of Kansas said.
“If we can do it without raising taxes we
should,” as he urged Republicans to resist the
Democratic formula for deficit reduction. Even
so. Dole sounded less adamant in opposition to
tax hikes than Reagan has been.
The proposal by Chiles and Sen. Ernest Holl
ings of South Carolina was the first of two
Democratic alternatives to the Reagan-backed
GOP budget, which would eliminate more than a
dozen federal programs as part of a plan to reduce
spending by $295 billion over three years.
Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia
was the author of the second Democratic spen
ding blueprint, which he described as an attempt
to reverse the “penny-wise, pound-foolish” cuts
contained in the GOP package. He said both
Democratic plans would “provide more in
vestments in our future, economic growth (and) a
strong national defense.”
Oscar-winner still counseling
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Despite an Academy
Award for “The Killing Fields,” Dr. Haing S.
Ngor continues to work for $400 a week counsel
ing refugees at the Chinatown Service Center.
Ngor, 36, has no beach house in Malibu or man
sion in Bel Air. The physician, who speaks nine
languages, maintains a modest apartment on the
edge of Chinatown, near his work at the center,
which provides social services, job training and
placement for about 30,000 Chinese and In
dochinese each year.