Show The Uuh Statesman Wednesday’ Miy 4 jq Mormon leaders issue statement against M in which America is involved' Kimball warns against 'the terrifying arms race SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Saying Mormon build a bof fcr prt)ini pioneers umr West to thf gospel of prate Mormon Churih President unusual plea to Spent rr W Kimball issued an President Ronald Reagan Tuesday not to put the MX miuilr norm in Utah and Nevada old Kimball considered a prophet by The the 4 7 million member of the Church of Jeau Saint ai joined by hi two Christ of latter-daMarion G and Tanner Eldon N counselor Romnev in urging that an alternative be found to the Air Eorte’ MX missile deployment plan The Air Forte wants to build 46)0 bomb-proomissile bunker in the Great Basin in whit h to hide 20i) MX missile rat h tarrying nuclear warhead The missiles as well as several hundred dummv rotkets would be shuttled brtween the bunker on heavy duty roads in what has been described as an elaborate "shell game" to confuse the Sis let Union about the missiles whereabouts Reagan is scheduled to make a decision on how to tie ploy the MX late this summer after he get a report from a private review panel studying MX bating alternatives In Washington responding to the Mormon leaders statement Air Force Ll Gen Kelly Burke said it is "improbable that unilateral cancellation by us of a major strategic program such as MX would the Sis lets to pursue balanced reduction through negotiation” Here t the complete test of the MX statement issued by the Firs Presidency of the Mormon Church "First by wav of general observation we repeat our warnings agamw the terrifying arms race In which the nations of the earth are presently engaged We drplorr in particular the building of vas arsenals of nuclear weaponry W'e are advised that there is already enough such weaponry to destroy in 86-ye- ar y f look-alik- e rn-tour- suflarge measure our civilisation with consequent incalculable extent of fering and misery "Secondly with reference to the presently proposed MX basing in Utah and Nevada we are told that if this goes forward as planned it will involve the construction of thousands of mile of heavy-dutroads with budding of some 4600 shelters in which will be hidden some 200 missiles each armed with 10 warhead Each one of these 10 nuclear warheads will have far greaier distructive potential than did the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki "We understand that this concept is based on the ratified provision of a treaty which has never been and that absrnt such a treaty the proposed installation could be expanded indefinitely Its planners state that the system is sc r wily defensive in concept and that the chances are extremely remote that it will ever be actually employed However history indie air that men have srldom created armaments that eventually were not put to use "W'e are most gravely concerned over the proposed concentration in a relatively restricted area of the West Our frelmgs would be the same about concentration in any part of the nation just as we assume those in any other area so selected would have similar feelings With such concentration one segment of the population would bear a highly diprop)fiinnate share of the burden in lives lost and property destroyed in case of an attack particularly if such were to be a saturation attack "Such concentration we are informed may even invite attack under a strategy on the part of an aggressor If such occurred the resuia would be near anniiolacion of muse of what we have Striven to build since our pioneer forebearrr firs came to these western valley "Furthermore we are told that in the event of a e attack deadly fallout would be carried by y first-strik- e first-strik- I prevailing winds aero muck of theoamx mg and destroying wherever prevaawd touched “Inevitably so large a consmictios payer have an adverse impart on water mounts as sociological and ecological (acton a fen Water has always brrn woefully short is toy the West We might expect that in OMctafl ditional demand for water there could be na consequence long-ter- "We are not adverse to consistent tad (to influx of mail but the population growth thousands of trmporsry worker and their together with those involved in support xnsa could create gTave sociological problem fix' ly when coupled with an influx modest a hi Impaled rnphasi on energy devdopmiL - i "Published studies indicate that the haglt j ecology of the are a would likewise be abends frtted “We may predict that J with 0 nutty hhsid dollars at stake we will hear much talk dragsfri minimise the economic benefits that sujk ° The reason for sue h portrayals will be ebriss j “Our fathers came to this western sits establish a bate from which to carry the It peace to the people of the exrth a ha sf that of gotpd the esteme denial of very same general area there should be tottawril mammoth weapons synetn potentially pdk destroying much of civilisation “With the most srnoul concern over iepn moral question of possible nuclear coaBxt : with our national kraders to nunhal the F rid alternatives the nation and to find viable secure at an earlier date and with fewer ku protection from possible our common concern” enemy aggiuwa New violence follows Sands' death Arms talks approve! Sovi3 BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) — The body of hunger striker Bobby Sands was earned home from the Mare Prison Tuesday in a black hearse that moved skmly through the not torn streets of Belfast t Roman Catholic strongholds Grieving rriKlenti draped black flags from their windows to mourn the latest IRA martyr Thousands of neighbors and supporter filed the open coffin Tuesday night A man standing past guard outside the Sands home said “He looks like an infant very small and very frail It's real y " heartbreaking Firebomb-hurlinrioters clashed with British troops and police in the worst riots in the last two 'wks of trouble surrounding Sands h linger strike rihM At lea 22 people were injured three critically police said oe officer was hit i the us a voOey of in a Catholic district of West where an army pacrol a Tyn a supermarket was 4 Hj Cal vehuJes were hymkcsT ami -- 1 P0 d rioters fought with firebombs and Hsetir bufiei in Coalialand A quiet rally by about 1000 Sands summer Dublin capital of the neighboring Irish republic ended with youths breaking away to set cars on fire and smash shopfronts in Grafton Street a luxury Bopptng area Rocks were thrown at the exchisive Royal Hibernian Hotel But the level of violence frli short of that predicted by thorn who said Sands' death would br ing on civil war At midnight the Royal Ulster Con ftabulary said “Things have now quieted down g ty high-veloci- M C4r crowd-dispersin- M a-tr- — g i The body was taken from the prison hospital by authorities shortly after his drath early Tuesday the 66th day of his fast demanding political status for IRA prisoners After an autopsy was prrlomed it was released to Sands family in early afternoon From the prison the hearse made its slow 1 journey to Sands family home in Belfast's Twinbrook district to await an IRA burial Thursday with full military honor — as the IRA guerrilla had requested Pallbearers including Sands father and brother draped the wooden coffin with the Irish flag of green orange and white before carrying it inside Black flags flew front windows throughout the neighborhood Seventy more of the 440 convicted Irish Republican Army prisoners at the prison threatened to join three of Sands' surviving comradt —one of them reported within days of death — in a hunger trike Minister Margaret Thatcher Britain would never grant political status to prisoners "no matter how much hunger tnke there may be v‘Mr Xanda was a eomricmd criminal He Ms own Li It swae ctske lie "®A - cf Arir vieeLna' dn i tea fit'j Pavement on Ar3 9 a Coalmans jjeJBnuri LLs n' Sands 27 is the newest martyr to due cams of the IRA and its supporters — — TTTa Protestant dominated British province of NenUn Ireland with the predominantly Pik hkk Republic -- tfdt between US ROME (AP)— NATO foreign mininwj admimwrtno finally endorsed the Reagan arms nuclear iton to open European with the Soviet Union this fall-communique issued at conference “ y member ( welcome the intention of the U gmggd ions on theater nuclear weapons the within the SALT framework by two-da- ftar‘" 1 U rdatioos with the Soviet their behavior not just rouble spots around the worHe made special mention of he Third World” and said the we ‘does aof for a mocnent mean mi - 1 as j j nrvtd1 The decision to start soviets this fall was announced MW Secretary of State Alexander N loard-doo- r meeting with the conference to&J Haig said at a news ministration’s decision to open urns reduction talks with the uitl mean it has abandoned concern behavior around the world the fuuI! Haig reiterated that Mher 1 not catering the nock favor so the Soviet Va to negotiate w J ) uurlrsr weapons aw j £r |