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Show ! makes our Minuteman III missiles vulnerable to a We must have missiles not vulnerable to attack. Vehicles built at theU.S. designed and financed, Kama River truck plant in the Soviet Union are continuing con-tinuing to be used to support sup-port the brutal subjugation of Afghanistan. Missile launchers and armored personnel carriers from the USSR's ZIL truck complex com-plex which has also received re-ceived U.S. computers and machine tools, are utilited not only by the Soviet Military, Mili-tary, but are sent to their allies throughout the world. In calling for creation of an OST Garn said the technology tech-nology transfer problem has resulted from the dispersion dis-persion of responsibility for regulating strategic trade throughout the ex ecutive branch. The establishment of the OST would allow the US government to upgrade its compliance efforts. Once a decision has been made not to sell a particular technology to a country, all US companies and their overseas subsidiaries must be in compliance. I have always been com -mitted to the principle of free trade, but I am also committed to the principle princi-ple of effective, efficient government and the requirements re-quirements of protecting the security of the U.S. I believe this legislation will bring order out of the confusion which now , characterizes the efforts of the Executive Branch to evaluate and protect U.S. interests in matters of strategic trade. U.S. Senator Jake Garn saying 'the current threat to our land based missiles is a legacy of our past mistakes,' has introduced new legislation, transferring transfer-ring the responsibility for export control from the Department of Commerce to a new Office of Strategic Stra-tegic Trade. The U.S.'s one time formidable for-midable technological and military superiority over the Soviet Union has been whittled away in part by a wide variety of technology activities. If the Soviets cannot buy it, they will attempt at-tempt to obtain it through theft or other espionage. Gam pointed out that the sale of 164 miniature ball bearing grinder machines ma-chines to the Soviets in the early 1970's probably accelerated ac-celerated the vulnerability of our Minute man III missile force. The ball bearings are crucial to the advanced guidance system of the Soviets' So-viets' new generation of ICBMs some of which are now having a reported ac -curacy of one tenth of a nautical mile. This vastly vast-ly improved accuracy i IRANIAN MILITANTS I HAVE NOW HELD 53 AMERICANS HOSTAGE FOR 6 MONTHS A DAYS |