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d e d i n to f o u r d i s t i n c t s t a g e s — " n o r m a l , p r e p
a ra tio n , e m e rg e n c y , and r e c o v e r y ." T h at p o r
t i o n o f th e p la n d e a l i n g w ith " h o s t c o u n t i e s "
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d u r i n g th e e m e r g e n c y .
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t i o n s " l i s t e d in A p p e n d ix O n e , o f w h ic h th e f o l
lo w in g a r e o f s i n g u l a r i m p o r t a n c e :
1. "A n a t t a c k w i t h o u t w a r n i n g is u n l i k e l y . It
i s p r o b a b l e t h e r e w o u ld b e a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l
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b e s u b je c te d t o f a l l o u t r a d i a t i o n . l t is n o t k n o w n
w h a t th e r a d i a t i o n i n t e n s i t y w ill be in a n y s p e
c i f i c g e o g r a p h i c a l a r e a o f th e c o u n ty .
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tw o w e e k s , b u t th e p o s s i b i l i t y o f a l o n g e r r e l o
c a tio n c a n n o t be e x c lu d e d .
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e i t h e r by p e a c e f u l r e s o l u t i o n o f th e c r i s i s o r
by n u c le a r a tta c k .
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i c a l s y s t e m s a f t e r a n a t t a c k c o u ld t a k e s e v e r a l
y e a r s o r lo n g e r ."
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f e s t th e b a s i c p r e m i s e s f r o m w h ic h th e p l a n
n e r s d e r i v e t h e i r d e f e n s i v e s t r a t e g y . It i s i m
p o r t a n t to r e m e m b e r t h e s e " a s s u m p t i o n s "
w h e n e v a l u a t i n g th e m e r i t s o f th e p la n .
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n e e d e d to p r o v i d e th e r e l o c a t e e s a s s i g n e d to
o u r c o u n ty w ith a d e q u a t e c a r e , w e a r e a d v i s e d
t h a t s u c h s e r v i c e s w i l l be " s i g n i f i c a n t l y i m
p a c te d " a n d th a t a d d itio n a l p h y s ic ia n s , n u r s e s
a n d p a r a m e d i c a l p e r s o n n e l m a y be r e q u i r e d .
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f r o m a v a i l a b l e m e d i c a l / h e a l t h p e r s o n n e l in th e
P o r t l a n d r i s k a r e a . U s e a n d a c c e s s to m e d i c a l
f a c i l i t i e s w ill be s t r i c t l y c o n tr o l le d a n d i n f o r
m a tio n r e g a r d in g t h e i r a v a ila b ility a n d l o c a
tio n a n n o u n c e d v ia r a d io a n d p o s t b u l le ti n s .
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a t th e ir " c o n g re g a te c a r e f a c ilitie s ." O u r
c o u n ty h e a l t h o f f i c e r w ill b e in c h a r g e o f p r o
c e d u r a l i m p l e m e n t a t i o n t h r o u g h o u t th e c o u n t y .
The " c o n g re g a te c a r e f a c ilitie s " — w h e re
r e l o c a t e e s w i l l b e h o u s e d — w ill b e o p e r a t i o n a l
tw e n ty -fo u r h o u rs a day an d m a n a g e d by a s ta ff
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C O N T IN U E D ON P A G E F O U R
FREEZE NUCLEAR WEAPONS NOW
U.S./U.S.S.R.
Oregonians support a nuclear arms freeze because:
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
We all know that the rush to build weapons o f destruction has
gone long past the limits o f reason. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
possess stockpiles o f over 50,000 nuclear warheads. More
weapons make us less, not more, secure.
NUCLEAR WAR IS NOT W INN ABLE.
We all know that the possibility o f a nuclear holocaust has thrown
a shadow over the life o f every human being. There can be no
defense against nuclear war.
THE ARMS RACE IS ALREADY HURTING US.
We all know that Oregonians are suffering from unemployment,
inflation, and high interest rates. The enormous military budget is
part o f the cause. President Eisenhower cautioned:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who
hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone; it is
spending the sweat o f its laborers, the genius o f its scientists,
the hopes o f its children.
REDUCTIONS ARE NOT ENOUGH.
We all know that reducing the number o f nuclear weapons is the
goal. But reductions without the freeze (like President Reagan’s
START proposal) allow for the production o f the newest, most
deadly weapons on both sides. START with the FREEZE, then
meaningful reductions will be possible.
THE FREEZE IS:
BALANCED: Those who claim a freeze would lock the U.S. into
an inferior position are wrong:
“ ...while the era o f U.S. superiority is long past, parity —not
U.S. inferiority —has replaced it, and the United States and
the Soviet Union are roughly equal in strategic nuclear
power.” (Dept. o f Defense Annual Report FY 1982, p. 43.)
VERIFIABLE: “ A mutual, verifiahale, freeze ... would be feas
ible to negoitate,” testified former C IA director William Colby
(Senate Foreign Relations Committee, May 1982.)
ECONOMICAL: Senators Hatfield and Kennedy estimate that a
nuclear freeze would save us over $200 billion during the next five
years. This money can be better used putting Oregonians, and
other Americans, back to work.
YES! I support the Nuclear Weapons Freeze.
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Oregon Nuclear W eapons Freeze Campaign.
Nancy Barnes, Treasurer
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P.O. Box 10857
Portland, OR 97210