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whether the Kinnock-Healey cessful outcome. Failure spokesperson. WHILST ONE radical policy after anther has been junked by the leadership attempt to sanitise Labour's programme for the for- waru a poncy theoming general election, party activists have comforted themselves nuclear disarmament pledge of successive party conterences, by and large, has remained intact. But in the past few weeks a deliberate ambiguity has been inwhat tests'. believed to be a straight-forward that all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases would in the lifetime of the next government. CAROL unravels the latest IN preparation for what turned out to be a disastrous trip to the United States, The Neil Kinnock announced that Labour would delay the removal of cruise penoutcome of talks medium-range nuclear forces from Europe. By implying that getting rid of nuclear weapons is in any the • conditional on the outcome ot Kinnock has ambiguous colld be gone publicly unchallenged by the leadership since 1983.
That ambiguity hits at the very heart of the nuclear disarmament policy that generations of campaigners nuclear disarmament policies. Returning from the USA visit, he told the Independent that the White House press statement 'that Neil Kinnock put forof unilateral nuclear disarmament was completely untrue' This was followed up with an article New Statesman, where he expounded his view that in a 'changing situation' the terms unilateral and multilateral were 'worn-out' slogans'. He argued for a 'nuclear freeze butressed by a comprehensive ban on nuclear the He has continued to expound this expelled the NATO forces from France in 1966, or as prime minister Pierre when he America's nuclear weapons Canada in the 1970s. In our discussions with our allies we shall weigh all the considerations they put to us with a full sense ot the responsibultv we know we carry for the unity and strength of the organisation in which is the foundation of our security.
In anther Guardian quote from Healey alult savs withdrawal of all American nuclear weapons from Britain 'would have no time limit, though we would expect to