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Show nautic officials spent over three hours answering questions ques-tions in a private interview with the editor of the Millard Mil-lard County Gazette.They indicated in-dicated they would begin a program to better inform the public. would cost more money due to their size and smaller payload. He said that the Minuteman in silos could not be used for the MX without costly re-engineering. Zeiberg and other aero- Holding separate news conferences this past week were the Governor of Utah Scott M. Matheson, and the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Strategic Arms and Space Services. Governor Matheson revealed re-vealed his 'official position' on the deployment of the MX Missile in the Utah and Nevada Neva-da desert in the race track or grid systems, statingthat Utah has limits as to the growth that its towns can undergo. Matheson said, 'Utah can and will play an important role. But I believe it should play that role primarily pri-marily in terms of helping achieve energy independence, indepen-dence, not as a location for the deployment of a strategic weapon system with such enormous impacts.' He further stated that limited supplies of water, manpower and financing were key reasons for his opposition op-position to the basing of the MX in Utah as currently proposed. pro-posed. Matheson indicated he would be willing to accept some missiles in the state, but said he favored the verti-cle verti-cle silos as the Minuteman III now uses. The Governor indicated he would accept MX deployment on m ilitary lands at Tooele Army Depot, Dugway Proving Prov-ing Ground and the Hill AFB bombing range, with servicing serv-icing from Hill AFB. He said the decision to build the MX would not be timely enough to deter the Soviet balance of power, but that updating and modifying the Minuteman III would do so. Once the MX was produced pro-duced and came into production, pro-duction, it could be used within the Minuteman III silos. si-los. The Governor said that he felt the prime role of Utah was in supplying the increws ed energy needs in the coming com-ing years. Disagreeing with the Gov. was Dr. Seymour L. Zilberg. In a press conference at the Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City on the Thursday prior to the Governor's statements, state-ments, he said the proposed Minuteman III modifications |
