Bush administration defends
revised nuclear arms policy
By Jim Landers
The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON (KRT) — Bush
administration officials defended a
revised nuclear arms policy Sun
day, saying all options should be
considered for retaliation against
nations such as Iraq and North Ko
rea that might use weapons of mass
destruction.
The new policy review elevates
conflicts with six nations — China,
North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Libya and
Syria — as scenarios meriting im
mediate consideration for a possi
ble nuclear response. Conflict with
Russia was regarded as a less likely
“potential” threat.
Secretary of State Colin Powell
said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that
the new nuclear posture was part of
an ongoing review of military op
tions, and was not a targeting strategy.
“There is less here than meets the
eye,” he said. “Right now, today,
there is not a single nation on the
face of the Earth being targeted by
U.S. nuclear weapons on a day-to
day basis. We just don’t do that.”
Other administration officials
said the review meant nuclear retal
iation should be an option if an ad
versary uses nuclear, biological,
chemical or conventional-explosive
weapons of mass destruction.
Commentators in nations identi
fied by the review reacted by accus
ing the United States of seeking
world domination, while allies in
Britain and Italy accepted the Bush
administration’s statements that it
was nothing more than routine mili
tary planning.
The policy review discusses nu
clear retaliation for attacks with nu
clear, biological or chemical
weapons on allies such as Taiwan,
Israel and South Korea as well as on
the United States.
White House national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice said on
NBC’s “Meet the Press” that such an
approach was consistent with the
traditional deterrence role nuclear
weapons play in U.S. strategic
thinking.
“No one should be surprised that
the United States worries about the
proliferation of weapons of mass de
struction,” said Rice. “It has been
longstanding American policy that
the president reserves his options
on determining how to respond
should some state use weapons of
mass destruction.”
With four Middle Eastern states
— Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria —
mentioned in the review, news of
the report could complicate Vice
President Richard Cheney’s visit to
the region this week.
Administration officials have said
Cheney would discuss President
Bush’s characterization of Iraq, Iran
and North Korea as an “axis of evil”
with the Middle Eastern leaders. He
is also planning to press them for sup
port on toppling Iraqi President Sad
dam Hussein, the U.S. officials said.
Nuclear retaliation was implicitly
threatened against Iraq during the
1991 Gulf War when U.S. officials
said allied forces would take “the
strongest possible response” if
Baghdad used chemical or biologi
cal weapons.
Though the review describes ef
forts to develop bunker-busting nu
clear missiles that could wipe out
deeply-buried arsenals of biological
or chemical weapons, Powell said
the United States was not develop
ing new atomic weapons. He said
the administration was looking in
stead at improving or reworking ex
isting nuclear weapons for the task.
He also said the United States
was not considering a resumption
of nuclear weapons testing.
Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on
CNN’s Late Edition that the review
was a policy guidance tool rather
than a plan for the use of nuclear
weapons.
“This preserves for the president
all the options that a president
would want to have in case this
country or our friends and allies
were attacked with weapons of mass
destruction, be they nuclear, biologi
cal, chemical or, for that matter, high
explosives,” Gen. Myers said.
© 2002, The Dallas Morning News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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SAPP class to target
men’s health
Questions about male nutrition,
exercise, drugs, sex and emotional
health don’t have to go unan
swered.
During spring term, a Men’s
Health Class is being offered
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examine why college women in
general take better care of their
health than their male peers, as
well as exploring men’s socializa
tion in a cultural context.
The class, SAPP 410, will be led
by instructors Jon Davies from the
University Counseling Center and
Annie Dochnahl of the University
Health Center. The two-credit class
will be offered from 5 to 7 p.m.
Thursdays in 105 Esslinger.
— Lisa Toth
New voting regulations
clear up ‘chad’ dilemma
In response to the 2000 ballot
controversy during the presidential
election, Oregon Secretary of State
Bill Bradbury released a directive
establishing statewide standards
for counting “hanging chad.”
The 2002 Vote-by-Mail Directive
states that ballot workers should
count a hanging chad as a valid
vote if it has four, three or two cor
ners detached from the ballot. It
also states that ballot counters
should examine ballots for voter in
tent when one corner of a chad is
clearly separated from the ballot or
the chad is pushed in.
A chad is the section of a punch
card ballot removed to indicate a
vote.
The directive also states that the
county elections office must notify
voters if their ballots arrive after 8
p.m. on election night and are
therefore not counted.
Bradbury said the Vote-by-Mail
Directive is part of a larger effort to
provide Oregonians with a better
elections system.
The secretary of state’s office
oversees elections conducted in
each county by county clerks. Ap
proximately one-third of Oregon
voters use punch cards, according
to the secretary of state’s office.
— Marty Toohey
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ral adventure than the Arditti Quartet, 1999 win
ner of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for life
time achievement and a Gramophone Award for
contemporary chamber music. Their program in
cludes Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 2, Ainsi La Nuit
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