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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, said that the survival of mankind and the rescue of the increasingly obsolete U.S. economy requires “that the nuclear armsrace. . .be called to a halt and reversed.

‘That is the concept behind the. growing movement for a nuclear weapons freeze,’’ he said.

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“The AFL-CIO has established a committee of which I am a member to. undertake a 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.

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