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Show Grass Roots America Diplomats Should rVoecf A U.S. Interests at Talk, Si 3y .Lti-.v M.'t:i ',. i J' el I'.-IH .i OII selects the negotiating team for the next round of Strategic Arms Limitation Lim-itation Talks (Salt II), the emphasis should be-on be-on diplomats more interested in-terested in protecting America than in the theory the-ory of disarmament or simply reacning an agreement with the Soviets. So-viets. The results of the first round (Salt 1) have been criticized. with good reason, by knowledgeable knowledge-able detense expens in Congress ana elsewhere. The protests whouldhave been louder and more visible except for the fact thai the peace-ai-any - price a dvocal e s view disarmament as a goal in itself w iihout regard re-gard 'o the impact on U.S. security. The reasons America should be concerned is because Salt 1 "froze" U.S. and Soviet missile strength at a level that gives the Russians a oe-cisivc oe-cisivc numerical advantage. advan-tage. --The Sov lets are allowed al-lowed io ha v e a maximum of 1.409 land-based missiles mis-siles under the lc'"ms of one agreement. The United Uni-ted States is limited to 1.051. the same number we had in the mid-1900 s. - -The Sov iet I 'nion is permitted an arsenal of 950 sea-based missiles compared to 710 for the I 'ii'led Slates. - -Tot;. I Sov iet missile streng'li under Sail I is ' 2.359 to 1.7:0 for the I filled St ites. l . i i I COl.Mll . .1 Ml permitted to have two ami - ballistic missile sites, each with a total of 100 ABMs. The argument taised on behalf of this onesided one-sided agreement is that the United States still will maintain a substantial substan-tial lead in nuclear war heads because we arc installing multiple warheads war-heads on our missiles--capable of hurling nuclear nu-clear devices at separate sepa-rate targets. Proponents of Salt I claim that if we had not reached agreement agree-ment with the Soviets, tne Russian lead would ha', e been wider in f i v e y ea rs. This argument, to be valid, makes one massive mas-sive assumption. It assumes as-sumes thai the Soviets will live up to iheagree-menl iheagree-menl and limit their mis-s:le-build:;ig programs to the levels agreed to in the treaty and will not oiherw ise cheat. That's a pretty big assumption. especially when it co. dd enta'I risking risk-ing America's future security se-curity . The Soviet Communists Commun-ists had noii-aggression treaties w ilh Poiar.d arid most of the other countries coun-tries they overran dining din-ing and after World W ar il. Trie allied powers thought there would be' free elections in Czechoslovakia Czech-oslovakia and other Iron t 'a r. a in salt Lite rial ion s . bin none have yet been held. Germany was to be unified through free e'l-ctio'is. but the. Si. v let smashed ar. Fast Gei m -an uprising with l.t-.hs :"'d built the B . ,. '"' w il lh(' nu (.ar - f I lrt';'t "f i(,L.t,. I ;,"d have Leon'.. I ;'t various tirrJ I working hard 'C ;"1 oroiul r " bomb--a saiti:; i llle ,"f hurling: v:ce at anyu. I earth. ' ft !n foe:. ab,,j;.. major ireau .,';. I tne Soviets ha:,t", far are those i- V outer space. jy g " d reason hr-. far, they lia(.'.'. oped the techV.' crioritv that y.. A a ' i jlation psC-': U Trial's hard!. P; on which anvonJ U! a great deal , For this re-ji -erica should lorgaer -p -u'. round of t,hfr ... arms limitai;r.' Our goal shoyyV tecting .7 further deve'..--: 1 clear weapons l-ch:io;,jg . i,. ") f logical lead is W gua rantee te the Sov iels to the U;!Tis f" treaties tre K-'- the U.S. ' " ' W kholll su.-r. : r ! U, am. -e-backed V silc and spacj a l reaty n. j s ig ijture on i;-. . out to be a .- it piece of piper. ' |