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DISARMAMENT

‘Freeze’ rolls on despite Reagan

By TIM WHEELER
WASHINGTON — U.S. Con-
gressional leaders rebutted presi-
dent Reagan’s claim of Soviet
“superiority”, asserting instead
that the two countries have “‘rough
‘equivalency’’ that makes
negotiated mutual nuclear
weapons freeze both essential and
timely. -
~ Jn a jammed capitol news con-
ference Apr. 1, senators Edward
Kennedy (D-Mass.), Mark Hat-
field (R-Ore.) and Representative
‘Edward Markey (D-Mass.), the
sponsors of the broadly supported

- nuclear weapons freeze resolution
in Congress, reacted to Reagan’s
statements rejecting the nuclear

weapons freeze.
In his press conference the night

before, Reagan claimed that ‘a

freeze would not only be disadvan-

tageous — in fact even dangerous”’
— to the U.S., but would also
“militate against any negotiations
‘for reductions.”

‘Insisting that the Soviets have a
¥‘definite margin of superiority’,
Reagan claimed that a freeze would
give “no incentive for them to meet

- with us and reduce.”

{n his opening statement,
Reagan said he preferred a

- counter-resolution by Congress

hawks senator Henry Jackson

-(D-Wash.) and John Warner

(R.-Va.) to proceed full speed
ahead with the administration’s

drive to add 17,000 nuclear

warheads and the offer to negotiate

with the Soviets after the buildup is

conipleted.

Senator Kennedy scornfully
described ‘that position as arms
control ‘‘which says that you must
Nae more (bombs) in order tohave
ess.

“The president claims we are
behind the Soviets but he offers no
reason to believe that. We have
9,000 strategic warheads and they
have 7,000. The two superpowers
have the equivalent of one million
Hiroshima bombs.”’

President Reagan scheduled the
news conference.in a desperate at-
tempt to reverse the floodtide of
popular support for a nuclear
freeze. The issue has taken off so
dramatically that the House set
aside 18 hours for discussion on the
urgent need to end the arms race.

Kennedy said that Reagan’s at-
tempt to confuse and divide the
freeze movement would fail.
“Millions of citizens sense. the
danger of nuclear conflict,’’ he
said. ‘‘That is why they have joined
in the nuclear freeze movement.
They have rejected the Reagan-
Warner-Jackson approach which
means more billions of dollars,
more thousands of bombs, but no
more security.

“The Reagan-Warner-Jackson
approach is part of the problem,
not part of the solution,” he said.

A reporter pointed out that 56
senators have endorsed the
Reagan-Warner-Jackson -resolu-
tion but Kennedy snapped back,

“‘We have the support of millions
of people across the length and
breadth of this country for our
freeze resolution. The people are
ahead of the politicians.”’

The demand for the mutual nuc-
lear weapons freeze has indeed cap-
tured the minds of millions across
the country.

In the year and a half since the
campaign was undertaken, there
have been committees set up in 43
states and 279 House districts
throughout the U.S. Resolutions
supporting the freeze have been
passed by 309 New England town
meetings, 33 U.S. city councils, 10
county councils, seven state legis-
latures and one House in the legis-
latures of four other states.

Nationally, it has been backed
by 24 members of the Senate and
166 House members.

Earlier, at continuing House
hearings on the ‘‘Full Implications
of the Military Budget’’, Columbia
University professor Seymour
Melman reacted to the administra-
tion plans to add 17,000 new
warheads to the U.S. arsenal.

‘What purpose can be served by
adding 17,000 warheads in a time
of over kill,’” he demanded. ‘*What
difference does it make if we have
the capability of destroying them
50 times and they can destroy us 60
times?”’

The hearings were convened, by
representative Ronald Dellums, a
member of the House Armed Ser-

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Melman, appearing Mar. 30,
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and the rescue of the increasingly
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“that the nuclear armsrace. . .be
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‘That is the concept behind the.
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weapons freeze,’’ he said.

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“The AFL-CIO has established
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thoroughgoing inquiry,’’ he said.
‘We are no longer getting reliable
stories from the Pentagon.

“As we continue this nuclear
buildup, I become as concerned as
others about the future of mankind
* _Thaven’t found a worker yet
who believes job is worth standing
in daily danger of being in-
cinerated.

“The bottom line is: workers
must have the right to peace,’’ he
declared.

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