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Show itt (.uni ron tat ion? So I I lie I IN kllnl Reagan Team Prepares For Conventional War By Kh hard Halluran York Tiinr-- . Writer W ASIlINi i Tl Tin Reagan ad nanislratam has begun to lasluon a military Mrategy that would prepare the armed fun-efor t hi- possibility that onir I'ontroutation with tlu Soviet Union might load to a protraeted war. according to senior Pentagon officials. Ni-- eoiiu-ntiona- l Tito oonoopt. which is basically sot hut is stdl being refined, reflects the initial imprint of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and his top associates on the nation's military It is part of the policy being drafted to guide the services as they shape their 1983 budgets. The officials said the plan sheds the concept that any war with the Soviet Union would probably be of short duration and settled by negotiation or enlarged into a nuclear conflict, they said it envisions the possibility of a long conflict with conventional weaixins in several parts of the world at the same time. thinking. Require Vast Mobilization The new strategy would require investing huge sums of money in weapons and ammunition, transport, equipment and supplies. It would also require a vast mobilization of manpower and revitalization of the defense industry, the officials said. The administration would retain the reliance on strategic and tactical nuclear weapons as a deterrence. the officials said, but would strive to make the military command and communications apparatus invulnerable to nuclear attack. They said that the administration would also retain the commitment to the North Atlantic alliance and continue to modernize its medium-rang- e nuclear weapons, keep U.S. forces in South Korea and elsewhere in Northeast Asia and prepare for localized conflicts against adversaries other than the Soviet Union. Concept Remains Unclear President Reagan and his senior advisers have not so far articulated an overarching concept of foreign and military policy comparable to the Truman Doctrine and containment; President Eisenhowers strategy of broad nuclear retaliation; the flexible response of President Kennedy, or the Nixon doctrine of detente. President Carter followed a policy of detente and. until nearly the end of his term, military restraint. The new military strategy, which reflects Reagan and Weinberger's skepticism of detente, may lead to such an overall doctrine. In the immediate case, the president laid out the basic approach, Weinberger shaped it and Under Secretary of Defense Fred C. Ikle pooled recommendations from his staff, the military departments and senior military officers. The strategy thus heing formed shows strong influence from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and from the commanders in chief of the forces in the United States and abroad. In a recent extensive revision, Weinberger ordered that the Joint Chiefs and the military service secretaries be brought more into the planning and budgeting process. To Forward Recommendations Once the strategy has been decided, it will go to the Army. Navy and Air Force to guide them as they draw up budgets for the fiscal year 1983, which begins Oet. 1, 1982. Their recommendations will be sent to Weinbergers office for coordination, then go to the Office of long-standi- I ! The new policy, the Pentagon officials said, asserts that it is "essential that the Soviet Union be confronted with the possibility of a far larger conflict if Russian forces try to deny the United States access to oil. The officials asserted that such a geographic spread of a conflict would not necessarily escalate into a nuclear exchange because neither side could be certain of escaping devastating damage. Thus, the conflict could turn into a long conventional war for which the United States must be prepared. To build up the total military confronting the Soviet Union, the officials said, the United States would increase its military assistance to other nations, especially in the Middle East and particularly Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. ugeles Times t v w , C I . ike Jnlitiui-- .Sunday. April i! pis t Cu I " s, ill Reagan Tries lo Soothe Japanese 0$ er Subs Sinking of Freighter O - w Management and Budget for revision The military budget will be approved by Reagan Itefme he sends it. along with the rest of Ins budget proposals, to Congress next January Tile )oliey guidance instructs the military services to plan their lories, weapons and equipment to doteud the nations interests as far away trom American shores as their resources w ill permit, the officials said. These goals would add to expenses because transporting forces and sustaining them far away is costly. But the the officials said, justified policy, increasing the Navy's size to litkl ships, trom 450. Threat to Oil Sources The threat of the Soviet Union to the West's .sources of oil in the Middle East and around the Persian Gulf is emphasized. the officials said. The strategy calls for the direct introduction of American forces into the region it access to petroleum supplies is jeopardized. This policy appears to solidify and extend the policy enunciated by Carter, then president, after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in late 1979. At the time. Carter pledged to defend American interests in that region with military force if necessary. However, Weinberger, in his initial appearance before a congressional committee as defense secretary, criticized that Carter administration policy as "extraordinarily clumsy and In An Sen ice TOKYO President Reagan assured .l.qui) Saturday that the sinking of a Japanese Ireighter m a collision with a US Navy Polaris nuclear was "receiving my H'ioii.il attention and that he expected progress from a naval investigation to he made before Prime Munster Zeuko Suzuki v isits Washington May ti to 4 The unusual asstiranee was ottered m a persmial - inissii,-submarin- A , I U.S. lo Lift Soviet Grain Curbs? WASHINGTON (APi Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said Saturday that President Reagan possibly will lift the partial embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union vv ithin tlu next two weeks, if the president is convinced that the Russians are not about to intervene militarily in Poland. Baldrige. who made the comments in an interview the Cable News Network, is the highest-rankinadministration official to confirm that the president is about to lift the embargo, which Ronald Reagan criticized during last falls camon e paign Administration sources who asked that their names not be used said last week that Reagan was ready to lift the sanctions which former President Carter imposed m the wake of the Sov iet intervention in Afghanistan in December 1474. Reagan promised during the campaign to lift the embargo if lie were elected. "1 think that as soon as he (Reagan) feels that theres a real sign that the Russians, that he can make up his mind that the Russians most probably will not invade Poland..." Baldrige replied when asked if the embargo was about to be lifted The commerce secretary said "possibly" when asked if Reagan might take the action "in a week or two." White House spokesman Larry Spcakes said Saturday no decision had been reached on whether to lift tbe embargo. letter to Suzuki signed by Reagan, which Ambassador M ho Mansfield dt hvered to Foreign Minister Masayoshi tin m Tokyo Mailslieid lead the letlel and then llallded It to lto in partial response to a iequest front the foreign minister that the I nited States speed up an investigation ol what Japanese newspapers have dul lin'd the Hit and Run" meident It was the second time Mine the Polaris submarine, tbe n.019 Ion George Washington, on April 4 rammed and sunk the Nisshu Mam. a 2.350-tofreighter, that M.uislield had been called to the Foreign Ministry i RUN FOR Heart fl'.s s LIFE DAY Iprof-x- t ciav Mav 25 off decorating shop-at-ho- me The professional decorating services of our Shop-at-Hom- e department are now at your service with 25 savings. 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