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Soviets strong,
| pit pelll

While the new Pentagon -

WASHINGTON (AP) ~
assessment of Soviet military power warns that. Moscow ;.
haa built the world’s biggeat submarisie force, it doesn't gay
that U.S. Navy, officials belleve: ‘Ameriean ous: are still
superior;

And while the: report: talks about the. new long-range

Soviet bomber, code-named Blackjack, it:doesn’t aaytome .

_ U.S, defence officials béllevé the plarie will Have a large
' “gignature;"" meaning tt can be easily. tracked. by US.
radar,

The Pentagon warning about the ‘Soviet “dedication to:

achleving military superlority”’ was issued, Wednesday In
the midst of the Reagan administration's ‘efforts to retaln *:

congressional support for its record defence bulldup. -
_ “The facts... leave no doubt as to the U,S.S, R's
- dedication to achieving. military: superiority in all’ flelds,""’
- gays the slick, 107-page Soviet Military Power assessment.
It repeated anew the theme that underlies the record $1.6
trilllon buildup proposed by President Reagan and.U.8,--
Defence Secretary Caspar Welnberger — that a program is.
needed to “rearm America’ to meet the mounting Soviet *
threat, '
Although there is wide agreement from both defence.
* supporters and critics about the size of the Soviet buildup,
there is disagreement about what the United States should

it

sth! ie silt oe

congressional consideration of ¢he administration's request:
‘to Increase defence spending to a record $298.6 billion in
fiscal 1064, an overall Incréase of 14 per cent or 10 per cent
after inflation.

That budget has met opposition on. Capitol Rill, where .
even Republicans loyal to the administration are saying the -
Pentagon buildup needs to be trimmed. The Dernocrat-run
_ House of Representatives armed services committee last
week called f for a-7Z5-per-cent increase, after inflation, and ©
ev say the Republican-controlled Senate budget
committes is likely to approve a similar figure: . “

. Last week, senior U.S, defence officials’ acknowledged
they had concluded that Soviet military spending had been
overestimated between 1976-1981. It only rose two per-cent a.
year during that period, rather than the three per cent that

'. had. been estimated, they said.

The previous’, week, Robert. ‘McNamara, defence
secretary ‘to two: Democratic. presidents, confirmed. the
. Soviet threat has: been routinely overestimated. .
‘It hae been customary for years — it was when was at.
. the Pentagon — to overestimate the Soviet threat and-
. underestimate NATO forces,” sald McNamara, who called,
for limiting the Pentagon increase to five per cent after
inflation. =~
. “The military. balance today Is sufficient to deter the
Soviet Union,” said McNamara.
For example, « Pentagon report to Congress last week |

. sald that although Mogcow is gaining, the United States has ©

a 16-to-1 lead in basic technologies that “have the potential
for significantly changing the military balance. .
"Although the Soviet Union has more submarines, U.S.-
offictals.say the American submarine force is superior
because its vessels are quieter — and thus harder to detect.
At the same time, the U.S, abllity to detect submarines °
outstrips that of the Soviet Union. “Basically, we know

where their subs are and they don't know where ours are,” -

said-one:U.S. Navy official, asking that he not be named.
In its long-range bomber forces; the United States, rather.
than building bigger planes, is going the other way, making |
them amaller and thus harder to detect. For example, U.S. —
Air Force officials have said the B-18 bomber will have a.
radar pattern §0 times smaller than the current B-1A.~
‘And the United States hat a lead in so-called stealth.

-_ technology, the Pentagon told Congress last week, referring

to the ability of the planes to use different construction
paiterns and materials to hide from enemy radar...
While the B-52, mainstay of the U.S. strategic bomber -
' force, is getting old, 'I’e stil better than what they've got,”” -
said a U.S, Alr Force officer, aleo speaking on condition
.that he not be named.’‘“The best way to make the B-52 look.
_ good-is to look at the Soviet bombers," .
The Pentagon report aleo mentions that the soviet Union -
“has. test.fired two new solld-fuelled intercontinental
missiles. Almost the entite Soviet rocket force is liquid-
fuelled while the 1,000 Minuteman missiles; the heart of the
US. retaliatory land-based force, have solid fuel. Solid-fuel
missiles are considered syperlor because the fuets are-
easler to handle and load and improve misallé accuracy.

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TORONTO ¢ CP) — If a cancet treatment works but
makes the patient's life miserable, is it. worth It?
Many. patients think not, says. a cancer. researcher who -:
-warns that” ‘doctors who look ‘only, ata ‘cancer’ patient’s -
physical condition are not seeing | the whole picture. .-
‘Dr. Harvey Schipper of Winnlpeg,: who. heads a program:
' that looks at how cancer affects patients’ lives, has 3 Jearned ,

. that patients and doctors don't always see eyerto-eye 0 ony:

what is. an important side effect af cancer treatment.

A doctor. might ask if a ‘patient experienced. ‘nausea, os ‘

Schipper ‘told’ :a” selence’“ writers’ symposium held \-
Wednesday. by_the Canadian Cancef Society.."The doctor’ 5°
next question might be: ‘How often? Every six hours; every -.
12 hours, every 48 hours? For how long? Three, days, 10°

days? Was it mild, moderate, severe? Were you vomiting, a

retching, puking?!
* “But the patient might ask: “will: L be. able to ‘spend time“

Does this. isease take over" everything I do?" te
Schipper: a8, an assistant: ‘professor. of medicine at the.’

: Manitoba - Cancer Treatment..and ‘Research: Foundation, ::.

_ tougher questions of their doetora;::-

bone marrow transplant, his prognbais.was grim,’ decided ..

" pays.patients are better” informed’ today and; are: “asking -. .

on: the: ‘day. before: tha ‘operation - Hot : hd undergo the v

procedure,’ | he: sald. ts ;
The patient decided it was too, wich of an ‘imposition on :

“hia life aiid hot worth it-at the ‘Bge of 45,-Schipper seid; 2

Doctors may be frustrated when a patient-turns down,
treatment that might have added three or four months to
his lite. But “we must remember. that patients whe, refuse

‘The future of amajor Canadian multinatlonal once at the.
_ brink of bankruptcy was virtually angured. Wednesday, ©

while 110 Newfoundland mineworkers and a small Tordnta-

based publishing company hecame the latest casualties of

the recession.
- After months of niegotlations, Massey-Ferguson Ltd,

vannounced it has -firially completed a second major .

refinancing -agreement with, its international lenders.”
+ the laid-off workers are unionized while the others are from
2: Meanwhile, Iron Ore Co. of Canada: Lid. announced it will. .

involving ieash savings of abbut $600 million U:8.

lay ‘Off another- 110 workers ‘at it. mining -operatton at

: Labrador Cily, Nild., and Fleet Pubtishing, a subsidiary of

. Toronto-based International Thomson Organisation, paid it’

will strut down June 15.

’ AB. éxpectid, the Massey refinancing, plan. involves | a

~ conibination of interest forgiveness | and the: conversion of

some’ principal.'and interest into Massey ‘shates;: the *

~ Nostrand Reinhold, to distribute publlcattons from. the
“United States, Britain and. Canada, ~~

“troubled: farm-implements maker, said: in‘a: “staléement..
Massey, which was:saved from collapse tri 1981‘ when

of an effort to sell the company “as 4. going concern
Toronto-based Fleet is an amalgamation, created Tagt!)
year by International Thomson Organisation,-of tie, trade :

‘creditors agreed to a $715-million, refinancing plan, ‘said ©

substantial arnounis of its ommion: shares, and ‘sottid ;
¥ ‘preferred shares. will be issued under lhe new. agreementé;

The refinancing Is badly needed by the, Toronto-based’ 7
multinational, which haa Tost about $960 million since:1978 :.

— including : 8 #4113-million Joas last year believed to He ‘the “

second: blegést ever. suffered by\a Canadian company.

_ Detpite its Hndnélal difficulties sid the eoitiniied sluing”

in the fatm machinery market, Massey ‘chairman Vielor

_ Rice has predicted: the company will break. even in the.”.

Vek

‘be rétaiied until mid-Jurie when ‘the company ‘clases...

oa "“Dunigan sid’ that wh
\gesping on the beach,"
+. year, His predictions con
any forecasted GNP of 4.1 Oe eantin 1904,'4.6 in’

. lightly 1 next year’
” Econometries Canada, also noted that ‘tHe: ‘$90-billip;

: “short-term painkillers"
4 ‘expenditure to help unemployment, jacking the Sefielt up

in Even: with
-about $19 iin by

average 3.7 from 1066 until-1990.
‘He. also. predicted ‘the unemploymieri ev
‘and:hit.8.6 per’ cent-by. 1950
director of the forecasting ‘firm.

“Leo De. Bever;

"He also sald that althougti he’s.no ‘against

 jtist'go awa
dust Y. auch as increased. government

further will only delay recovery,

‘+ Ronald Wirlek,. associate professor. of economies ‘at the

“University of Western Ontario in London, said. the. choice

‘| . between economic stimulus and restraint is not an éasy one.

“The tragically high unemployment rate, the idled'plant

- ceaipacity and the resulting lost output’ all scream - for a
" concerted pragram of economic stimulus," he said,

But he added that # strong recovery ‘boosted ‘by

‘government pollcy could set Inflation rising again. :

John McCallum, economics professor at the: Uaivernity of -

_ Quebec in Montreal, suggested. that since. the: ‘deficit isn't

-:Nkely to simply start dropping on its-own, "Ottawa should
 deslgn temporary fiscal measures to ftw Ihe with
- economic canditions. . a, :

Campers protest

_ GREENHAM GOMMON, England (AP). — Citke Walter
pulls her windbreaker tighter and settles down amid aiitter —

a - of tin cans, plastic sheets and benches made mud
- covered haystacks: . ;

It will be another long night In’ freezing woatiiee inatalde.
this U.S, Alr Fores base where a women’s “peabe ¢amp,”
set up more than 1 months ago, has become-a-foca! point

‘- I. for. protesters ‘in an Intense, British debate on. tia: huclear
-fesue. :

“In December, the alt base is scheduled to receive tine first

8, eraise missiles to be deployed in Western. Burdpe, The
women in the camp don’ t want them there — OF. nywhere .
oS elee. .

Both, ‘aides polish up: thelr ‘arguneits ‘amid. sweeping

~ ; ; ‘moral ‘stances, apocalyptic visions and alge “Ot Uatent
-- Britiah. antl-Americanism, io H
oS. What's happening in the world: now ts

something very

"A > .erious, something Lcould no longer ignore,” siya: Walter,

* our: treatments are not always irrational or “confused.

“They may do se because they perceive them’ as being
~_ Hneompatibte: not with survival, -but' with living as they
“Must.” Me

He said it was dlfticul to explain to a hard-core scientist

that the quality of life issues such as the ability tocope from _-

“day to day with: anxieties, depredsion: and feelings of. vague
“discomfort are a8 legitimate aspects. of someone's disease

as “any, measurement we can make in the laboratory.”

, Patienta in, Manitoba’ 5 outtredich program, who: may. find .
a trip to Winnipeg Inconvenient and time-consuming, are.
~ treated by general practitioners in thelr own home towns —

an approach Schipper. sald waa Aireeted initially with gome
skepticism. -

__“If you say you don’ treally neéd all that expertiae, ‘and it.
turns oul badly, people are going to pounce: on you and say, -

You blew it buddy,’ -
with my children? Will Ibe able te carry on:with:my job? ~ 7

But a doctor In the. patient’ own town does have a distint
advantage over the large-city doctor,.Schipper said.

:: "He ean phone up the sugar mill where the patient work -
~ billion project’ to replace the Polaris missiles with new

-and say:.'T've gat Job coming in for chemotherapy, can you

. Juggle -bls job a ‘bit?’ ] “geetalaly. couldn't do that from .
Winnipeg.” ‘

“For example, a Winnipeg man: ‘who knew that without ai

, Examining how well the patient: returns to the kind of life
he lived before cancer is iniportant if researchers are to.
find a-treatment that works, Schipper’ ‘sald,

“And hesald hehopes to look back In five years and ase Si

. research as.““hopeleasly. primitive. 4°

“You can't isolate cancer patients from the ‘cammunlty, Z
-In a few years, we'll be:looking back-at the treatment of.
‘cancer the same way we. now look now at, jhe treatient of.

_ tubsreulosis.” " es : :

current tical year and could make’ 8 profit next-year as a

“result of the economies achieved in ita figtit to.survive,

Massey sald cash savings of $620 million would result”
from the financial restructuring and the.rest from reduced -
operating costs. The $600 million of sayings would be over'a

next three years. : .
In Newfoundland, an Iron Ore Co. apokesman ‘sald, 60 of

clerical and: ‘managemént ranks.”

- Onee the latest layotis take place May ) aboiit, a ‘third of -
‘the company’s 2,700-employee force will be-on ‘layoff. .

Al Fleet, company president A: G. Cobham ‘aid“in an_
interview the decision lo shut down was taken affel’ Rue -

publication divisions of. Nelson. Canada Ltd. and Van}

He sald abput three-quarters of the staif of a at Fleet will

It other business developments Wednesday: ;

no way swollen deficits can be quickly reduced. *

poet oe Statistics Canada reported the country sold $1. % billion ‘
a ‘hore in | goods abroad in January ‘than ‘it imported, bit ‘it
was ihe smallest monthly trade. Surplus, since: April, iva, .
“and-down from $1.79 billion in Detenibe. rand #1 al. a * billion nin.
November. ; :

: eines

— Economists’ speaking «to. thé “Gntario.. “Heonionte ‘ Jiken Thatcher i Hit
Gounéil's Conference on government deticita agreed there's - ° a. aa ° en's ‘Propaganda ‘ehlet ;sJoneph

- scathing -sarcashi, about. unilateralist thorality!

* pesture.”" ees

"94, an unemployed history graduate and journalist's
. datighter who intends to camp aut here ‘for as Tohg-aa it
‘takes.

‘On the other side of the tsaue is Prime Minister: Margaret

' derdas"her Conservative goveriment'sianessage that:the
cruise missile is vital-unleas there. isa superpower
disarmament agreement on medium-range nuclear
weapons. =

The rhetorle of the peace movement, socking ‘1 get
Britain's nuclear arsenal scrapped, turns to catch phrases
such ag “non-nuclear defence policy.”
: “The words unilateral nuclear disarmament make jeople
think the Russians are: coming tomorrow," says “Roman
Catholic Monsignor Bruce Kent, head of Britaln’s ‘biggest

6 ins” "Thitéher, who'eays;"1 din dhetrue disamvert(as sheputs

atiéer treatment has probl

~" peace movement, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

The Greenham: women, who’ attracted litile ‘attention
when they set up. camp, now regulatly break into the base
* andget arrested. in February, 36 were jailed for two weeks.
About- 6) women take turns: running the ‘camp. —
housewives, students, a few grandmothers, feminists,
leftists and some just looking for a cause. Thirty thousand
; turned out in December to ring the 1-kilometre perimeter
base in an “embrace of peace.”
- The British public, polls show, apparently is of two. minds.
Most are opposed to.cruise, but even bigger majorities
favor retaining Britain’s own nuclear arsenal of submarine-
launched Polaris missiles. The government plans a #14.5-

Tridents.. .
Politicians, both Conservative. and_ "opposition Labor

party, detect anti-Americanism in the public responie as

Mra, Thatcher argues that Britain awes it to United States

: and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to ‘do its bit to:
- keep the Soviets at bay,

., “An unthinking strain of antl- Americanism has crept into
the disarmament debate. in Europe," Foreiga Seeretary
Francis Pym sald recently. “" . :

He: urged West Europeans to remember. at ‘the 572

“Tomahawk crulse and Perthing-2 missiles dud to be

*, deployed in five West European countries were to answer a

» buildup of Soviet. §S-20 rockets aimed at Europe. :

Massey- ‘Ferguson saved again

“Let protest be directed at them (the Soviet), not at the
Americans," sald Pym, ._ _
Laborite Gerald Kaufman, whose party favors serapping
- Polaris and-tanning cruise, sees shades of the “overpaid,
overaexed and over here” view of U.S. troops stationed in
Britain during thé Second World War, . *
we don't want thelr rockets here,”’ saya Kaufman,’ “We ;
want our own bomb to show them and everybody « else we’ re

", . having no nonsense f
" porlod of several years with the Greatest benefit over the on ‘ rom anybody.

“Tf Russian missiles ever do land on Britain, It is because
-weare sticking up for qureelyes, not because we have been
“pushed by the Americans*into-the front line."
The Conservatives, arguirig the Americans would never
fire cryige frony, British soil without British permission, are
under brepeure: from: their own supporters: 0 -get” actual
“dual hey” aa frol io undercut the “Whose: fing
-AHiabere reakaiien
77:*Phey trast ts ona we: are trusting them,"
/iichiel Heselline.
telat: ‘Pym “ing: Heseliine : are. “speacheading a
campit aearin the disarmers.. Loe
itler figures prominently ‘since Thatcher. “declared
recently that allied digarmament al have kept t the Naxls
in power ‘in Germany for ‘1,000 years...
-_ The Campaign for Nuclear Disarment, which now |

: mays  Detence

aed

.  dbotit, 250,000 members, has. ‘grown rapidly. since” the:1

NATO decision to’ deploy | cruise and Pershing niisiiles.

Goebbels.
© Thatcher mixes. her “true: -disarmer”

stance, with :

.” Evidently tHe niiélear bomb is too horrifis for'ihs
toown; but not:too horrific for the Americans {o'pto
wih. «: . Is that: a a moral Resture?: Some » moray.