Ash Street Productions
presents

Tom Paxton
Sings for Peace
Sun., Feb. 27, 2 p.m.
Q.E. Playhouse

Salute to
Labor

Sun., Apr. 10, 2 p.m.
Q.E. Playhouse

S
Leon Bibb
Tribute to Paul Robeson
Sun., June 12, 2 p.m.
Q.E. Theatre
Series Tickets
Adult $26, $24, $22
OAP, Children
$16, $14, $12

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DISARMAMENT

MX ‘escalates arms race’

U.S. president Reagan’s an-
nounced plan to proceed with the
first strike MX missile system —
cynically dubbed the ‘‘peace maker
missile’? — has brought condem-
nation from the peace movement
across the continent.

‘‘Just as the Cruise missile and
the Pershing II are first strike
weapons designed for the Euro-
pean theatre . . . so is the MX
missile a first strike weapon design-
ed to strategic assault against the
Soviet Union,’’ Dr. John Morgan,
president of the Canadian Peace
Congress charged in a statement
Nov. 24.

In the U.S., Peace Council
chairman Michael Myerson cited
the MX decision as demonstration
of ‘‘the hypocrisy of Reagan’s pro-
mise to work for peace in this and
future generations.’’ Michigan
senator Carl Levin, one of several
Congressional leaders to speak out
against the decision, called it a
violation of the Strategic Arms
Limitation Treaty (SALT).

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, target for the test firing is the Kwa-
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; Islands, some 5,000 miles distant.

Reagan announced the plans for
MX deployment Nov. 22. Con-
ceived by the U.S. air force, the
scheme calls for the huge missiles to
be placed in closely-spaced silos —
the so called ‘‘dense-pack” —
located in several sites in Wyoming.

Announcing the project before
various charts purporting to show
the U.S. gap in strategic arms,
Reagan claimed that the new
deployment plan was devised to
enable the missiles system to sur-
vive a Soviet strike in order to
retaliate.

But the charts significantly omit-
ted the nuclear arms of the other
NATO countries and also omitted
the three new weapons systems
developed by the U.S. for which
there is yet no Soviet equivalent,
namely the Cruise missiles, the
neutron bomb and the MX system
itself.

The news conference also omit-
ted any mention of the first strike
capability of the MX missile, the
primary reason for its develop-
ment.

Unlike any existing intercon-
tinental missile, the MX is designed
for pinpoint accuracy. It has a
range of some 7,000 miles and even
at that distance can strike within
100 yards of its target, carrying 10
independently targeted warheads.

There is only one reason for such
accuracy: to knock out Soviet
missiles in a pre-emptive, first
strike. And put in the context of the
U.S. refusals to join the USSR in
renouncing first use of nuclear
weapons, that capability has

, ominous possibilities.

The first MX is to be tested in
1983 at the

With the MX plan, ‘“‘the existing
strategic nuclear balance is
drastically tipped in favor of the
U.S.,”’ Peace Congress president
Morgan warned.

Referring to the charts used by
Reagan, he pointed out that the
figures on which they were based
‘were deliberately concocted by a
task force headed by then CIA
director (and current vice-
president) George Bush under the
Carter administration.”

But the Bush figures have been
refuted by the Stockholm Peace
Research Institute and the
London-based Institute for
Strategic Studies and the agencies
which have emphasized the nuclear
parity that exists between the
NATO and Warsaw Pact forces,
Morgan said.

In fact, it was the existence of
that party which gave the impetus
to the U.S. nuclear freeze move-
ment whose initiative has been ac-
cepted by the USSR but rejected by
the U.S.

Significantly, Reagan announc-

ed the MX plan only three weeks’

after balloting in nine states and
some 25 major centres showed
U.S. public opinion overwhelm-
ingly in favor of a freeze.

The central executive committee
of the Communist Party also con-
demned Reagan’s decision, con-
trasting the U.S. president’s escala-
tion of the arms race to the over-
tures for peace and reaffirmation
of detente made by newly-elected
Soviet Communist Party leader
Yuri Andropov.

“The remarks by Andropov are
in sharp contrast to those of
Reagan,”’ the CP statement said.
‘Reagan has undertaken to ac-
celerate the arms race while An-
dropov proposed a nuclear arms
freeze and arms control based on
parity and equality of security.’

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