continue the SDI (Strategic 'obsolete.
This latest move is in Wilh repeated claims by the USA that the Soviet the SALT II treaty. claimed that only the US is adhering the SALT FICHL UNS abandon said: 'In Tuture LOC decisions its of posed SALT stricmined by compliance.' believed within NATO itself.
White spokesIrishle an 'unprecedented up', on to make in Control talks.
By last weekend the Soviet Union had responded. In a statement issued Tass, the official news agency, the Soviet Union said that as soon as the United States exceeded two Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties, SALT I and Defence Initiative) allegedly aimed at making all 'offensive' missiles the SALT iamits Ine Soviet union would take 'the necessary steps to prevent the military-strategic parity from being usel in older words, they will increase their own nuclear arsenal commensurately with that of the United States.
of strategic weapons the Soviet WIll Sull with But omic Inev would Tole US navy prefers the At B-52 This is exto exceed the States has decided to scrap SALT II is clear. It is aiming secure Hutical superiority over the USSR.
has two options achieve this.
The first is simply to try to out-build the Soviet Union. The US economy is twice as big as that of the USSR far technologically advanced. Reagan calculates that in a straight forward arms race the United States will win as well as doing great damage the Soviet economy as ll ls orcea lo divert resources civilian to military uses.
The second tactic is to combine Star Wars with so-called deep cuts' strategic missiles. The latproposal sounds reasonable. But it is important to understand that the combination agressive move by the United States.
No one believes a Star Wars system can be built which can knock out all incollins Tockers also calculates that USSR does not have the technology resources for Star Wars gramme that will rival the The USSR's only response Star Wars theretore is to increase its own number of missiles to make sure that they would By erate the US de ences, cubille Star Wars in with 'deep cuts' Reagan is in fact demanding that the Soviet Union reduces forces to the car War seen at could not penetrate where the US could attack the USSR with nuclear attack Hence Reagan's Wars with deep cuts is the combine the crac opposite bachev's proposal Star Wars be abandoned and a radical reduction made number missiles as a first step to eliminating nuclear weapons altogether. bachev's proposals would reduce the arms race and move toward eliminating nuclear weapons. Reagan's an aggresive against the USSR The United States scrapping of SALT II is yet its another gressive military policy. it step in its Leaves no doubt as to who responsible escalation of the nuclear full arms race. Star Gorthat be of Gorcoordination commission. for over four years.
other leading Solidarity activists move Lne General Jaruselski's military government has captured and arrested Zbigniew Bujak, former leader of Warsaw Solidarity and one of the leading figures in the underground temporar!
He has escaped arrest The authorities have also captured Konrad Bielinski and Ewa Kulik, two Demonstrations against Bujak's arrest were broken up on Sunday in Warsaw with tear gas and
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LAST WEEK, on Tuesday 27 May, the Reagan ad- ministration announced its intention to abandon the
II, at the end of this summer. SALT I was agreed bet- ween the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972, SALT II in 1979. The latter was never ratified by the US. Instead, the White House announced, it will