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Show v , . Dear Editor: Thank you for the opportunity oppor-tunity to relay the following MX information to your readers. First of all, concerned Utahns and Nevadans should be advised that the Air Force has set a January 15, 1980 leadline for public input into development of the next MX environmental impact statement. state-ment. (The Air Force deadline dead-line announcement appears in the November 27, 1979 'Notices' section of the FEDERAL REGISTER.) Their new EIS is supposed to focus upon the impacts MX would have on our socioeconomic socio-economic as well as physical, physi-cal, environment. Citizens have until January 15th.when ployment. In addition, two highly regarded defense strategists (Dr. Herbert Scoville and Rear Admiral Gene LaRocque) have visited Salt Lake City to warn us that the MX system is strategically stra-tegically unsound, and may ultimately jeopardize our national security. Even Mac Haddow, Senator Hatch's representative on Governor Matheson's MX Task Force, has stated that In 1985 we will have to come up with a new system which will make the MX obsolete. Could not the Russians again follow suit? Lastly, I would like the people of this area (or 'Candidate 'Can-didate Siting Region', as the Air Force calls it) to know that an MX Information Center Cen-ter has just opened in Salt Lake City. We feelthat citizens citi-zens are entitled to know what their governments have in store for them, and we will endeavor to facilitate their understanding of the situation. situ-ation. We will maintain an MX reference collection, and a calendar of MX related events. Feel free to call 581-9027 for more information, informa-tion, or write to the MX Information Center at 232-12 232-12 University St., SLC, UT 84102. STANLEY T. HOMES Coordinator, MX Information Coalition the scoping period ends, to tell the Air Force which particular issues should be studied in the upcoming EE. Direct comments to: Ballistic Missile Office Civil Engineering Div. Norton AFB, CA 92409 The BMO should provide an MX information package and a copy of the January 1980 scoping report, upon request. re-quest. Secondly, I urge everyone every-one to get hold of a copy of Senator Orrin Hatch's recently re-cently released flyer, "Some Thoughts on the MX Missile'. His letter illustrates a major ma-jor problem we, as citizens face in dealing with this most important issue; namely, that while a situation exists wherein much of the public is seriously misinformed misin-formed about, or confused by, MX realities, many of our government officials can not, or will not, address the issue fully and objectively. Senator Hatch's MX 'Thoughts'. . . is fraught with erroneous and misleading inform ation. In the first line of the letter, for example, the Senator states that 'Few weapons will be more important im-portant to our nation's security se-curity than the MX mobile missile.' Since September when President Carter gave the go ahead on the Air Force's MX program, articles arti-cles in several reputable periodicals (including Harpers Har-pers and Scientific American magazines) have raised grave doubts abut the military mili-tary necessity for MX de- |