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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Page 6 The Utah Independent May 27, 1976 A SCHLAFLYS REPORT "IS KISSINGER PHYLLIS Is Kissinger a Glistrup? treachery and of Kissinger mistakes in negotiating SALT I. Independent sources such as Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, and the leading journal Aviation Week b Space Technology have provided abundant evidence of Soviet violations of the 1972 SALT Agreements. These violations include the building of 150 new nible program missile launchers, a giant to replace old, light missiles with new, heavy missiles, g attempts to blind our reconnaissance and satellites with laser beams, the construction ABM-typ- e and operation of another giant phased-arra- y radar in Kamchatka, and more than 60 tests of SA-- 5 radar, key component in the Soviet ABM system. In May 1972, when Nixon and Kissinger returned from their champagne celebration in Moscow, the SALT I Agreements were almost universally hailed as great achievements by scholars, newsmen, and politicians alike. In the general euphoria of the summer of 72, most metropolitan dailies and newsmagazines failed to print the texts of the Agreements. Congress never Kissinger about the terms, but voted overwhelmingly for them anyway. ABM, then we should build the twenty ABM sites ordered by President Lyndon Johsnon before his wise plan was killed by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The lives we save may be our own. Conventional Military Comparisons - multi-billio- The third largest political party in Denmark is headed by Mogens Glistrup. His domestic policy is to eliminate nearly all taxes. His foreign policy is to abolish Denmarks military defense and replace it with one man who, in case of a Soviet attack or ultimatum, would telephone Moscow and say two words in Russian, We surrender . Glistrup argues that little Denmark cant possibly defend itself against the tremendous' military might of the Soviet Union, so there is no point in pretending. The Danes might as well stop spending money on .weapons and accept their fate any time the Soviets attack. It is becoming increasingly apparent that Glis-truterse and flamboyant foreign policy is essentially ps the same as Dr. Henry Kissingers verbose and pedantic policy. The facts of the last seven years demonstrate that Kissinger must believe that America cannot compete with the Soviets in nuclear weapons and, therefore, we should stop building any more at all. The day Kissinger went into office in January 1969, the United States had 1,054 ICBMs and 41 nuclear missile-firin- g submarines. Seven years later, we have number: 1,054 ICBMs and 41 nuclear the same exactly submarines. unilateral misKissinger kept us in a sile freeze from 1969 through 1972, then persuaded Richard Nixon to sign the SALT I Agreement which perpetuated that freeze, and now is psyching up Gerald Ford to continue that freeze in SALT II while the Soviets acquire a first-stricapability over us. Kissingers strategy was summed up by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt in this memorandum he wrote after a personal meeting: Kissinger believes the U.S. is on the downhill and cannot be roused. He states that his job is to persuade the Russians to give us the best deal we can get, recognizing that the historical forces favor the Soviets. Kissinger denied saying this, but Zumwalt retorted, Kissingers answer is just one more indication that liars lie. Actions speak louder than words, and the record missile-firin- g self-impos-ed ke clearly shows Kissingers defeatism in the face of Communist demands in Vietnam, in SALT, in Helsinki, in Angola, and in Panama, The more aggressively the Soviets advance, the more Kissinger sounds like the American Glistrup. Kissinger and the Primaries All the Presidential candidates have intuitively identified Kissinger as the Achilles heel of the Ford Administration. Ronald Reagan and George Wallace have been outspoken against the SALT accords with the Soviet Union, as well as Kissingers plan to give away the U.S. Canal to Panama. Jimmy Carter said that the President ought to be the spokesman for the United States, not Kissinger. Birch Bayh evaluated the Kissinger foreign policy as negative. Sargent Shriver said he would discharge Kissinger. Fred Harris said that Kissinger represents exactly what is wrong with American foreign policy. Scoop Jackson for years has been an articulate and effective critic of SALT and Kissingers other blunders. President Gerald Fords stubbornness in maintaining that he is proud to have Kissinger as Secretary of State can only be compared to the loving indulgence of the mother of the new army private who, upon seeing her son drilling with other soldiers, remarked, "Everyones out of step but my son Jim. President Ford won the first three primaries in 1976 pretending that the Soviet Union is no military threat and vowing to keep Henry Kissinger after the November election. After Ronald Reagans victoiy in North Carolina identified the "Kissinger issues, Fords response was to stage a media event reviewing American troops and bragging that he has submitted the two largest defense' budgets in peacetime history. The issue is not whether the defense budget should be 107 billion or 113 billion dollars. The issue is how far have we fallen behind the Russians and how close we are to Soviet attack or blackmail. Four years ago, Dr. Kissinger told us we were safe because we were ahead of the Soviets in the technology of MIRVs, the multiple warheads on our missiles. But his State Department reversed previous policy and approved the sale to Moscow of 164 very sophisticated American grinding machines which have enabled the Soviets to produce the guidance mechanism essential so-call-ed for MIRVing the much larger Soviet missile force. The American people havent yet learned all the details of how the Nixon and Ford Administrations have helped the Soviets economically and militarily. The voters intuitively know, however, that candidate Ronald Reagan addressed himself to the really important issues when, in a nationwide televised speech, he called for "the restoration of American military superiority and a rejection of the Kissinger policies that have made us inferior to the Soviet Union in both conventional and nuclear weapons. The Cowboy Who Gets His Man Kissinger arranged the abrupt and humiliating firing of Defense Secretary Schlesinger after Schlesinger permitted the release of a Defense Intelligence Agency report which clearly proves that the policy of detente has been hurtful to America and highly advantageous to the Soviet Union, militarily, economically, and technologically. This report, written by Lieutenant General Daniel Graham, who also departed abruptly from the Penta- gon, states: Soviet detente policy has facilitated Soviet strategic nuclear expansion and the cancelling out of U.S. superiority. ... As viewed in Moscow, detente has clearly accelerated the shift in the correlation of world forces in the Soviets favor. Fords dismissal of Schlesinger can best be explained as just another move by the master power-brokeHenry Kissinger, to fire anyone who deviates or dissents in any marginal way from his policy of r, detente-at-any-pric- e. Thus, Kissinger arranged the humiliating dismissal of Ambassador Gerard Smith as chief of our SALT Delegation after Smith released a public statement forecasting that the 1972 SALT Agreements might jeopardize "U.S. supreme interests and that we might have "a basis for withdrawal from the SALT Treaty. During Richard Nixons Administration, Kissinger successfully checkmated Secretary of State William Rogers and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird so that they were Cabinet officials in name only, with Kissinger exercising the real power. When the time became ripe, Kissinger himself moved into Rogers job, and Kissinger put his James Schlesinger, into Lairds job. More recently, Kissinger arranged for the abrupt departure of Daniel P. Moynihan as U.S. representative to the United Nations. Kissinger wont tolerate anyone in the foreign policy field who wont expound the gospel according to Henry. When the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci interviewed Kissinger a couple of years ago, he told her that he secretly thinks of himself as a cowboy riding alone into town to get his man. The notches in the butt of his gun could appropriately represent the bringing down of some of the top officials in Washington. then-proteg- e, Salt Verification and Violations When President Ford fired Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, many people said he fired the wrong Secretary meaning, of course, that Secretary of State Kissinger should have been the one to go. Then President Ford made another mistake in choosing which of Kissingers several important jobs to take away from him. Ford fired Kissinger as chairman of the powerful Forty Committee, but retained him as chairman of the more important SALT Verification Panel. The Forty Committee has control over our Governments secret overseas operations. The mistakes of this Committee have been being sensationally exposed by Congressional committees. The SALT Verification Panel, however, remains Dr. Kissingers private enclave, although the harm he can do there to American security is vastly greater. The kingpin of Dr. Kissingers policy of detente with the Soviet Union - the essential factor on which his entire strategy and reputation depend is the SALT Agreements of 1972. His power and prestige deon those pend perpetuating Agreements, in spite of their built-i- n advantages to the. Soviets-He has a personal vested interest in concealing Soviet violations which would cause Americans to terminate SALT I or to reject SALT II, which Dr. Kissinger persists in trying to negotiate. His chairmanship of the SALT Verification Panel provides the administrative power to suppress the evidence of Soviet - -- - . , n early-warnin- cross-examin- A quiet revolution has taken place during the last . year among knowledgeable experts. Today the experts will no longer defend the SALT Agreements because they are afraid that would cost them their professional reputations. The case against SALT and Kissinger is so comprehensive and totally documented. Good business and political practice always requires that the auditor be someone different from those who make the decisions. It is imperative that President Ford appoint a new chairman of the SALT Verification Panel wholly independent of Dr. Kissinger. ABM Closing Shortly before Congress adjournment for Christmas 1975, the lobby pushed through pasto force the closing of Amendment of the sage Kennedy missile site, at Grand Forks, our only North Dakota. This is the wrong move at the wrong time at the wrong place. The missile system, or ABM as it is called, is one of the greatest achievements of American technology. It is a device for shooting down enemy missiles when. they are coming at us at speeds up to 18,000 miles per hour. The technical feat involved is as difficult as hitting a bullet with a bullet - and this fantastically difficult intercept was developed and perfected by American scientists. The ABM is not a weapon of war but the key to peace. It is no good at all for killing people. Its sole purpose is to defend American lives and property against enemy attack. It is the only means we have to protect ourselves against the possibility that some Dr. Strangelove in the Kremlin might push the button to launch the 1,618 Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles at the United States. The lobby argues that the ABM is "provocative. This is like saying that it is provocative of a jewelry store to install a burglar alarm system. A burglar alarm is totally benign toward everyone in the world except the burglar; it doesnt even harm him, but serves only to hamper his illegal work. The ABM cannot kill a single Russian or Red Chinese. It doesnt interfere with anything except missiles that have been launched to kill millions of Americans. already lobby argues that the ABM is ... The to the nuclear balance. Over the last destabilizing seven years, the Soviets have built a thousand intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of fire and death to millions of Americans. Duringcarrying the same period ot time, the United States built no additional offensive missiles, and only that one ABM in North Dakota, with which we can shoot down a handful of Soviet missiles. The record speaks out loud incoming and clear a tn which side is destabilizing. The clique argues that we have never used the ABM so, therefore, the money we spend on it is wasted. That is about like saying that your fire insurance premiums on your house are wasted if your house never bums down and you never collect. I will not feel cheated if I pay fire insurance premiums all my life and never collect. Military weapons, and especially the ABM, are our insurance of peace. The most successful weapons of all are the ones we never have to use because we convince the enemy in advance that we have more than enough means to come out on top of any fight he starts. The lobby argues that the Soviets now have so many MIRVs that they can overwhelm our ABM and still hit U.S. targets. The answer to this is not to give up and let the Soviets destroy us more easily, but to revive the great American "can-d- o attitude. If the Soviets have enough missiles to overwhelm one anti-defen- se anti-ballist- ic ic anti-defen- se anti-defen- se anti-defen- se anti-defen- se The powers that be in governmental, academic and communications fields are fond of telling us that nuclear war is unthinkable, that there is a balance of terror between the major superpowers, and that nuclear weapons will never be launched because both sides know they would only destroy each other. If for the sake of argument we assume this is true, the obvious follow-u- p question then is: Which country is weapons? stronger in There is, unfortunately, only one answer 'to that question: the Soviet Union. The superiority of Soviet conventional military power is spelled out in a recent report by the prestigious Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., called Sizing Up the Soviet Army. It snows that Russian military forces have the capability and the mission to carry out a "relentless attack, blitzkrieg style, designed to ensure the total defeat of the enemy. ... The achievement of such unlimited goals in the case of a conflict in the European area would entail nothing short of a giant blitzkrieg across NATO Center leading to the rapid occupation of West Germany, the Low Countries, and France. The Brookings report concludes that the 31 combat-read- y Russian divisions stationed in Eastern Europe clearly reflect willful preparation for massive, rapid offensive operations at the theater level in Europe. They can roll across Western Europe at a rate of 70 miles a day. This would bring Soviet forces to the English Channel within a week. The Brookings report gives depressing comparisons between Soviet and U.S. forces, and recites the immense amount of money spent on modernizing the Soviet Army. During 1972-7the Russians outproduced the United States by average annual ratios of 6 Vi to 1 in tanks, 5 to 1 in armored personnel carriers, and 7 to 1 in artillery pieces. By 1974 the United States had 2,600 medium tanks, while the Soviets had "a staggering 30,700. The report concludes that Soviet military doctrine is geared to the strategy of surprise attack, based on massive shock power and speed: the former, to crush the enemys initial defenses; the latter, to prevent recovery so that the enemy can be beaten in detail. ... The Soviet Union attaches great importance to achieving both strategic and tactical surprise in future combat. This report is corroborated by a recent White Paper published by the West German government which concludes that in military strategic thinking in the Warsaw Pact, initiative arid surprise are of overriding importance. ... The Warsaw Pact is able to mount a surprise attack from its existing positions practically without any preparations. ... This would permit the Warsaw Pact to profit from the advantages of being an aggressor who determines the timing of his attack and its main axis of advance. The evidence is inescapable that, if we take nuclear weapons out of our calculations on the theory that they will never be used, then Soviet military superiority over the Unived States is overwhelming. We had better start catching up before it is too late. non-nucle- ar ed anti-ballist- May 27, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Stand full-streng- th 4, Merchant Marine One reason why the United States has dropped from first place to tenth on the list ot major merchant marine fleets of the world, while the Soviet Union has risen from tenth to seventh place, is buried in a recent report of the U.S. Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee. It tells how the U.S. Government allowed and American company to sell the latest Federally-subsidizeUn- shipbuilding technology to the Soviet same ion, after refusing to let the U.S. Navy use the shipbuilding plans. Here is how it happened that our know-howas exported to the Soviet Union to be used or both. against us in military or economic competition, of New The Lykes Brothers Steamship Company Orleans made a deal last year with the Soviet Ministry of Merchant Marine to provide a Finnish shipbuilding company in Helsinki with the plans and specificationsof for the construction and delivery to the Soviet Union American barge ships known as two uniquely-designe- d Seabee vessels. The Soviets wanted this particular design because of its superior performance and especially its 2,000-to- n submersible hydraulic stern elevator which loads or discharges two loaded barges simultaneouly. The Soviets paid Lykes Brothers more than $1,000,000 in royalty for the drawings and data needed to construct the two Seabees. The Commerce Department issued an export license on December 12, 1974. w t A GLISTRUP? This sophisticated technology was developed during the building of three Seabee ships under a Federal construction-subsid- y contract, which specified that Lykes and the Federal Government are the joint owners of the technical data. However, the U.S. Government is not sharing in the royalty paid by the Soviets to Lykes, and two years earlier these same working plans were denied to the U.S. Navy, which wanted to construct a Seabee ship for the Defense Department. At one point in the negotiations, Lykes offered to sell the Seabee plans to the Navy for about double the price Lykes later charged the Soviet Union for the same material. n dollar Federal The purpose of the subsidy provided by the American taxpayers was to strengthen our own merchant marine and shipbuilding industry. The result, however, is that the Russians were given access to our ship designs so that they can commission the construction of ships in foreign shipyards and build up the Soviet merchant marine to compete with us. This is just one more way that the delusion of detente operates to the benefit of the Soviet Union and rips off the American worker both in taxes and in jobs. multi-millio- Detente in Grain and Oil y street is Another proof that detente is a the proposed U.S. Soviet grain oil deal. President YanFord told us it would involve some kee trading. The obvious implication was that the Administration was using the enormous leverage of our grain to secure additional oil of which we are now in one-wa- old-fashion- ed short supply. When the negotiations were finally finished, it apYankee traders were the peared that the Administration. Soviets and not the The Russians got a grain deal to bail them out of their colossal agricultural failures; but we didnt get any oil.' Once again, U.S. diplomats have played all our trump cards, leaving the Russians holding the aces. Senator Adlai Stevenson pointed out recently that American dominance in agriculture exceeds the dominance enjoyed by any oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Fifty percent of file wheat, 60 percent of the com, and 80 percent of the soybeans available in world markets come from the United States. By contrast, the worlds largest exporter of oil, Saudi Arabia, accounts for only 25 percent of the world market for oil. The Soviets must buy our grain because no other country can make up their harvest shortage. Secretaries Kissinger and Butz could have demanded Soviet oil for American grain - but they failed to do so. old-fashion- ed Ford-Kissing- er 7- Brezhnevs Speech on Detente President Ford announced that he does not intend to use the word detente any more. He has finally realized that it is counterproductive in American politics. Unfortunately, Leonid Brezhnev, General SecretParty, has just taken the ary of flie Soviet Communist five-hohis In speech to the 25th Conopposite view. gress of the Communist Parties of the world, Brezhnev made it clear that he likes the word detente because it ur is so highly productive of Communist goals. He said, We make no secret of the fact that we see detente as the way to create more favorable conditions for peaceful Socialist and Communist construction. ... Socialisms positions have grown stronger. Detente has become the leading trend, ... and Soviet people can be proud of it. No wonder Brezhnev looked so happy when he was photographed delivering his speech. It is certainly true that, since Richard Nixon made detente the watchword of U.S. - Soviet relations, conditions have become more favorable for world Communism. The Communists have taken over South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, and Mozambique; they are threatening Southwest Africa and Rhodesia; and d they have acquired a foreign legion of Cuban troops. An an example of the successes of detente, Brezhnev boasted that the Soviet people take pride in having rendered considerable aid to Vietnam in its struggle against the imperialist invaders. Imperialist invaders is Brezhnevs epithet for the United States. Elsewhere in the same speechhe describes capitalism as a society without a future. Brezhnev dispelled all illusions that detente means relaxation of tensions and peaceful cooperation. He asserted in his speech to his Communist comrades that Detente does not in the slightest abolish, and cannot abolish or alter, the laws of class struggle. In other words, in the Aesopian language of the Communists, detente is perfectly consistent with class battle-traine- Continued on page 10 |