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KE Shee Build: up needed LONDON (AP) — NATO should build up its conventional forces by using its high-technology superiority and produce chemical weapons to reduce Its dependence on nuclear weapons, Britlah defense experts said today, - ; They said this approach would lessen the chance of nuclear war ‘with the Soviet Union. The British Atlantic Committee, a non-governmental group, streased in its report that NATO's conventional forces are so inadequate and run down compared with those of the Warsaw Pact that there is a high risk NATO would | have to resort to nuclear weapons very quickly i if it were attacked. ; “The present (nuclear) weapons arsenals are-so far in "excess of the needs of detetrence," It said, The report proposed that NATO should withdraw all , battlefield nuclear weapons in favor of precision-guided munitions, such as anti-tank missiles, guided artillery shells and cruise missiles with conventional warheads. So-telied smart weapons — which pick their targets —- . together with other electronic advances could neutralize the Warsaw Pact’s superiority in numbers, thus raising the nuclear threshold, the nine-man group said. SUGGESTS REVIEW The report, Diminishing the Nuclear Threat, echoed’ other prominent voices calling for a review of the 14- country ‘alliance’s strategy of “flexible response” to combat any Warsaw Pact invasion of-western: Europe.» This entails & gradual:escalation in NATO's: response, starting With conventional forces, then to tactical bat-— tlefield nuclear weapons and finally to long-range nuclear- tipped missiles, “The concept of controlled, step-by-step escalation is impracticable nonsense in an-unpredictable and largely uncontrollable and chaotic. situation,” the report said. . It added: “Technology offers the prospect of removing ° the need to employ such a comprehensive spectrum of nuclear weapons as both sides now possess, and enables us. to think clearly and positively for thé first lime about a minimum. deterrent.” The report said: The West possesses too many weapons — * .systems and means of delivery for the task it is trying to achieve, So, too, does the Soviet Union.’ . It said the alliance would still need some nuclear weapons, but far fewer than al present. It questioned whether the West should seek to match the growing Soviel arsenal and deploy nuclear missiles in forward positions in Europe FIGHT 10-DAY WAR. The survey, carried out over two years, was published -two montlis after allied defence ministers signalled a fresh effort to bolster NATO's conventional weapons to be able to fight the 0-day war military planners use ‘as their yard- stick. But many of the alliance’s European members suspect that the trend toward emerging technologies, or ET in military jargon, means a major sales drive for U.S. arms manufacturers. The committee is headed by the marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Cameron, former chief of Britain's defence staff. It includes Gen: Hugh Beach, commander of the army’s engineer corps, and Sir Frank Cooper, former permanent undersecretary at the Defence Ministry. The report follows signs of strain between the United ‘States and its European ailies over alliance policy and the start of the deployment of more than 500 cruise and Per- shing 2 missiles in western Europe. - That deployment has aroused protests in Britain and other Eurapean countries and Moscow has countered by siting medium-range SS-22 and possibly SS-23 missiles in East Germany. The committee called for strong guidelines ‘of “eon- fidence and conduct” to be built up between East and West. PITTSBURGH (AP) - Us, Steel Corp.’ 3 controversial. - plan to buy National Steel” ‘Corp. is the ailing giant’ 3 latest: effort to make the: best ‘of: a bad situation in the troubled: steel-makinig business, say: industry experts. - “They're in an absolute haunt: of a. dilemma," “said Charles Bradford, steel analyst: for Merril Lynch, Pierce, Fentier and. Smith of New York.- "You can't afford to modernize because: there’ ‘3 no return: 7 on investment, but you can’t afford not: lo ‘modernize: because of what will happen later. So you" ve: Bot lo bay: ; somebody else.” U.S. Steel, the largest - Ameri¢an. steel ‘producer, is: squirming to ease the discomfort of painfully high levels of. steel imports, low demand for. products, relatively old, inefficient facilities and labor rates that exceed those paid by: overseas compelitors and by. siall Specialized steelmakers known as mini-mills. . - “U.S. Steel is trying to salvage something from this. awful . mess that it’s in,” said’a Pittsburgh-based analyal: who cited close ties with company officials i in esking nol. to be . named, st of “imagine. It’s far. worse MADE BIG JOB: CUTS 00S Taye Toy The company made the industry! 5 idigest single job cuts. in 1979 -by-- ‘eliminating . tne 13,060. positions; then ark. nounced Ded; 27'that‘ another 15,400 jobs would go by’ June. Tt has filed. trade suits against Third World tee! producers, the newest raiders of jts-once-secure markets; and is lob- * bying Congress for tough ‘barriers’ ‘digainst all ‘stéel imports. . Two years: ago; ‘in the: ‘second-largest , takeover: jn. U.S. corporate history,’ it acquired Marathon’ Oil Corp... for $6.2 billion, hoping. lo establish a reliable revenue’ ‘base. Now U.S. Steel is going: after the ‘National’ Intergroup Inc. . subsidiary whose relatively. modern, specialized facilities enabled it.to be the first American. steelrnaker.to emerge from the industry’ 8° deepest slump since. the Great Depression. ;" - } ! National, which cut its capaciiy to 5a inition, ‘tonnes B year from 12. million tonnes and tailored its products to the auto..and appliance markets,-.was. ‘the only ' major steelmaker to: operate broitably in the dat: ‘three. quarters . shipments are expecte rolled products. _ LOST $2.2 BILLION -vthe day after U.S. Sleel broke company records ini Tepor! violence, "Investigation ” WASHINGTON (AP) _ The loss of two key in- formants about Salvadoran death squads — one possibly "__mirdered for what he knew — has undermined the U.S, _Embassy’s investigation of El Salvador's right-wing administration officials say. The officials, who spoke on condition they not: be identified, said losing ‘the. sources —- and not an in- tentional. cover-up by the Reagan administration —- explains the failure to act ‘ against Miami-based exiles linked to the killings or . against rightist ~ leader Roberto D'Aubuisson. ” plicating D'Aubuisson in the 1986) murder oof: a Salvador’s Roman Catholic: ‘ archbishop. White also ‘Said _thé administration hag done littte with information gn six wealthy Salvadorans™ ‘in Miami who, he- charged, direct death: squid aclivity. “For three.” ‘years =the Reagan. administration “has , “pretended ‘it’ did- not that death’. squads: “and " military ‘butchery: -are. ‘in- trinsic features of the government and thilitary of EL Salvador,"” said: White, who: was. fired: bassador * by. Reagan in January - 1981; - ’ White was expected, ‘to President - undermined — ‘Latin Ameria. dp: “Bul y: administration ” sof” ‘ficials~: familiar. “wilh. ‘the. evidence | -digpule White's cover-up charge, saying the: Romero, * » sidered. by Salvadoran “rightists to be sympathetic ‘to the left. . ;, The . officials said. the * embassy lost. contact with . a the. source of: information , ithe officials dlso‘Said, the: information ; is. far. from : ‘conclusive and, - ain ‘some ” casés, : has ~been con- tradicted by: other’ embassy . ~- reports filed after White's departure. embassy. has lost contact | with. the, two. Salvadoran sources who’ provided. ‘the’ information cited by: White last: ‘week. One. official ‘said the military officer “who: im-- ‘plicated’ D'Aubulsson inthe assassination of Archbishop . military... Th icer:, : volvement .; ‘when’ the U.S. | service officer. who had. — ‘Aubusson, ant -OX- ‘Intelligence «of ‘has’ denied .-in- jin, the: atill- unsolved assassination of ‘who was ‘con- ‘about -.the “Miami exiles ‘foreign dealt with: ‘him‘was brought back 10. ‘the United States in 1982. The: informant, afraid | for his lift, refused to talk \ with anyone else and has ‘since dropped out of sight, ‘the officials said. HERMAN CC => } 4 . . “Lily, see if there’s anything on the 6 o’clock naws about it.” Last week, Rabert While, . former U.S, ambassador to. :during: testimony... today El Salvador, accused the. — before: the y. ‘Hou Ln, OF administration of con- -Represéntatives. ° “fereign -cealing evidence = im- affairs subcommittee “‘on expand on his accusations ; Ostar Arnulfo Romero Was - ‘murdered in San Salvador, “The: -°° “:information - available: to us is limited Pa) * 4 “about two’ years ago! sand,. incomplete, ‘and no “probably because of what conclusions can .be. drawn hevknew.” ~ from: ‘it,’ . said’ “State Wi Department . spokesman Alan Romberg, | - WANT EVIDENCE: Lo The skimpiness- of -U.S. ae j evidence abeut ‘the‘ rightist | ..AND I TOLD death squads in El Salvador MARCEL DANIS -has long been criticized by Congress and. opponents of HE COULD GET the administration's RID OF BR! AN . military backing’ for the - Salvadoran: government in . BY. WORKING . its, war , against leftist ee ee BT ‘piekriilas. ue FOR HIM iu A198 House ‘iettigenee ; ~—— committee ; staff report ’ complained about the CIA's | “dearth, of firm = in- formation” about rightist violence. Administration Officials blamed the lack of intelligence on the need to focus attention on leftist i activities. and the difficulty of penetrating clandestine | right-wing groups. _ Private. buman - rights : | cluding one sponsored’ by the Roman Catholic church, | have charged thal the | military and allied paramilitary groups are responsible for about 80 per cent of the. 47,000 political since 1979, . In testimony submitted to a House subcommittee last week, While charged that the adininigstralion has “covered up" evidence that 7 D'Aubuisson held a ‘lotlery” of. military officers to see who would” have the “honor" of assassinaling the archbishop, who. was shot dead while saying MAES . March 4, 1930. Don’t blame us says. ‘NASA HOUSTON (AP) -- If you order an electric widget from a mail-order house and it explodes the first time you plug it in, do you blame the postman who delivered: it? Probably net. And that's the position NASA is taking, on ., the Westar satellite that failed to go into the correct orbit after being launched by the space shultle Challenger and ”. has been described as.a “total loss." “Our responsibility ends once we have deployed the satellite," said flight director Randy Stone: Other National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials have joined in the chant to make sure the world knows thal NASA just delivers satellites — it doesn't guarantee that they'll work, Thal’s up to the customer. “We're just.a trucking firm," said a NASA spokesman. “We just take something from here and deliver it there, 1f° the customer has ordered a faulty product, that’ 8 his problem,” And for Western Union, owner of Westar VI, tt Is a big ’ problem, ittdeed. It's also a problem for Hughes Aircraft, _ Manufacturer of the communications satellite. FORCED BY SPRINGS Westar left Challenger precisely as planned, at the scheduled time and place, on Friday. A turntable starled the 3,31¢-kilogram salellile spinning at 40 reveluliona a minute in the shuttle cargo bay. Then, forced by four powerful springs, it rose majestically from its neat and moved smoothly away into the blackness of space. That - ended the $10-million Job NASA had agreed to do. | . Affer (hat, an automatic sequencer on the Weatar was to ignite a selld-rocket engine called the Payload Assist Module. The thrust was to send the satellite to a higher | orbit. Later, a second rocket engine was lo push the eral to a 45,897-kilometre orbit. in syne with Earth's, Bul something went wrong on the first rocket firing, the . satellite did.not respond to ground signals. and appeared to ~~ , be tost."Westar VI was found Sunday ~- but in the ‘wrong , “orbit. energy, said Bill Zegler, a spokesman for Western Union. “As far ag we know, we have a spacecraft (salelllle) : that's on the wrong orbit thal’ 8 completely benithy,” he said. ‘A TOTAL LOSS’ However, with no hope of ralsing the. satellite rs its Planned orbit, Zegler sald, ‘'T think it's.a total logs.:" “' Western Union invested $75 million in the Westar} and a * “loss would be covered by Western Union's! $idt-nailllon =: insurance policy, which cost $6. million in premiums, ‘company officiais said. However, ihe-real financial drain would come from the toss of revenue the ‘satellite would * have brought while in operation. ’ Hughes Aircraft is anxious to find the cause of Westar’ 8 . failurd’ because the company has sold the same type, of satellite to a niimber of customers. Four sucli satelliles have ‘been suecesstully launched on earlier shutlle missions. Despite the problem, NASA’ Mission Control assured the astrotiauts: ‘We wanl to congratulate you.on a fantaalle - "launch (of the satellite).-You did 4 great job." Some viewed the slatement as an efforl to assure the ' astronauté that Weslar's failure was nol their fault. The astronauts and Challenger delivered as promised, saya © NASA - ~~ it wos ihe customer’ ‘8 ‘machine thal falled. proups in FE] Salvador, in- . murders -in El Salvador ' - Hong Kong," he said. A ground station succeeded in changipg the satellite's , attitude so that ils batteries could be charged by the sun's. . . oods and service businesses.” bad situation Of 1983, : After a 33.2-per-cen t rise in US. auto sales last’ ys year, raising hopes for strong demand for Nationa} Steelmakers lost a ote tA ay American Iron and Steel institu Weds The merger with National was announced Ay. including $983 million in the last. 1,16 billion, 1993 losses of $ the fourth-worst quarter in. US. three months of the year, te histo corporate ry. ee over whether the proposed : éom-" Analysts disagr bination of America's No. 1 and No. 7 steel producers will in approval from federal regulators. ; : "I believe the government understands these things: Have become necessary," said Joe ‘Wyman of Shearson American Express. "uf don’t think it's going to fly," Bradford disagreed, “National i is the Ne. 3 flal-rolled steelmaker and.U.§; Stéel _is No. 1, It’s very misleading to call National No. 7. Lwould: almost bet that you'll have customers complaining, tn this case,” Experts also disagree in analyzing which forees over’ rhe ‘last decade have cut industry employment to 252,000. from -. tonnes from 510,000 and domestic shipments to 67 million 112 million: tonnes, while raising the market share of\im- ports to 20 from 12 per cent. Investors delayed REGINA (CP) -—Morethan a dozen Hong Kong. investors anxious to leave the British colony have been delayed in in ‘their ‘move to Saskatchewan by red tape. . Te All have plans to immigrate to rural communities populations under 2,000 scattered around the provitiée:” Government-sponsored newspaper advertisemetits™ “in 1982, -aimed at, attracting needed - businessmen’ “and professionals to specific communities, caught the: ‘eye, af” privafe immigration consultants in Vancouver. - Aaa The consultants brought the ads to the attention of Aheir Hong Kong clients, China’s 99-year lease to Britain of Hong Kong’ SNew ‘Territories, comprising 92 per cent of the colony's land area, expires in 1997 and the two countries are in the process. of negotiating sovereignty for Hong Kong. | The ads, part of the. Saskatchewan government's com- munity economic development program, listed nine centres seeking businesses such as a fast-food outlet, clothing'stgre and bakery. ath oe The federal immigration service “has slowed everything down lo a crawl,” said Randy Chambers, chairman of the economic development ‘committee in Watrous,"’ 80 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon. " “Businesses have been sold, bul they can’t get here.” WAITED A YEAR Chambers said he is unsure what is taking 50 long. Some: properly was purchased a year ago but the owners have yet to arrive from Hong Kong. ; He said the town could have brought; some of the trouble on-itself because’ it asked that all _inmighants be closely - -serutinized in a-bid to prevent pep f rom, Simply bus ving a “sbuisihess and leaving it emply dice they ‘arrive fh tees a. Chambers, who operates a funeral home, said an empty _ building has been purchased by one Hong Keng family for 4 children’s wear store, two cafes have been sold to others and land hasbeen purchased to develop a: dry-cleaning plant. “There was some curiosity at the beginning,”* he said when asked if residents are upset with the foreign investors moving into the town. “Some were uptight — that we were being bought aut - but it was nothing very serious." . Ray Boys, the provincial government's program director, estimates each Hong Kong investor will bring about $150,000 in capilal to Saskatchewan. . Businessmen who had made commitments to immigrate lo Leader, near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, and Kipling, in the southeast near Moose Mountain provincial park, are also among those still overseas. 7 “They were supposed to be here Feb. 1," said Ken Sch- maltz, a meat market operator in Leader, about" 180 kilometres northwest of Swift Current. “There was a snag in immigration.” RENT IS PAID Rent on a building to be used as a Jewelry store has been paid until April, he said. . ; Another two Hong Kong businessmen are investigating the possibility of building a small malt in Leader,’ -: > Scott Kearns, co-publisher ‘of the weekly newspaper. in ‘Kipling, said the "community is also waiting. for its new residents, nw Mh “They've opened bank accounts here, but they're e still in “There has been no adverse ealton to-forelgn investment, nothing derogatory," - Meanwhile, i in Preeceville, about 190 kilometres north of . Yorkton, ‘two families are remodelling by uildin, a and acquiring. Stock to open businesses, ° : . * Mayor Dale Apple said the immi | , grants atrived in ‘Sep- tember and hope to open a Chinese store this apne 9 restaurant and clothing “It (the program) was much more su | a ccessful than I really expected,” said Apple, an accountant. We also expect a tire shop, car wash and auto d here in the next few weeks. odenlerabipta be " ” “I don't think there was an rege quite pleased tosee them come, sentment, People's were obra bl ‘* eee ‘ The Harald welcomes’ Its. reade _. comments. All. letters to’ the editor . re general public interest will be printed... ‘They’ should ‘be Submitted 48 hours In. advance of desired publication date. We: do, however, retain the right to refuse to..: print letters on grounds of possible libel | _ or bad taste. We may also edit letters for "- style and length. lj ‘letters to ba considered for publication must. be. signed. It is impossible to co print a letter ‘submitted within 24 - publication date, hours of “devired:. ¢ ot d to climb another 11 per ord a : J of $4,2 billion during the year, : 7 to our town, Il broadens ¢ our” .