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Show Page 6 The Utah Independent March 3, 1977 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Continued from page 1 third explanation is that our ness gathering are geared to report what is happening -- - and The facilities they do not easily adapt to the challenge of reporting what is not happening. The liig news about the shift in the strategic balance is that we have not added ICBMs or unclear submarines to keep pace with the Soviet building program. How do you report on missiles and submarines that are not built? and simply dont make good pictures on televiNon-productio- ns non-Ia'unchin- gs sion. The result is that the American people are left in almost total ignorance of the most important news event of the decade the shocking change in the relative strength of the two nuclear super-power- s. Soviet Superiority When Khrushchev sneaked his 2,000-mil-e missiles into Cuba in 1962, the United States had an -l lead over the Soviet Union in nuclear striking power and the means of delivering it to enemy targets. Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham, until recently director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has provided the proof of how the Soviets have caught and passed us in 8-to- both nuclear and conventional military strength. From a lead of 600 intercontinental ballistic missiles, the United States is now 600 behind. All the Soviet ICBMs are many times more powerful than our ICBMs. From a lead of 16 Polaris-typ- e submarines, the United States is now 13 behind. Incidentally, the secret blueprints of our Polaris submarines were stolen by Russian spies. From a lead of 2,900 tactical aircraft, the United States is now 350 behind. The Soviets now have 10,000 surface-to-amissiles to our none, 500 intermediate-rang- e ballistic missiles to our none, and 64 missiles to our none. In major surface ships, the United States has gone from 130 ahead to 70 behind. In men under arms, the United States has 2.1 million to 4.8 million for the Soviets. General Graham concludes that these figures add to overall military superiority of the Soviet Union. up Meanwhile the Soviets have successfully tested e five new offensive missiles the and the mobile They have also developed transportable missile systems, including high energy lasers on a broad scale, which the editor of Aviation Week and Space Technology describes as a truly effective system. Not since the war preparations of Nazi Germany under Hitler in the 1930s has a major nation at peace devoted such a high percentage of its resources to the production of weapons and to the buildup of the related scientific, technical, and industrial base for military production. And what has been the response of the United States in the face of this increasing Soviet military threat? Congressman Jack Kemp has shown how U.S. spending for national security has been drastically cut in real dollars. Of course, all figures are up because of inflation. But, whereas defense spending has increased 100 percent since 1962, everything else has increased much, much more. Expenditures for national resources have increased 420 percent, education 772 percent, health 2,778 percent, interest on the Federal debt 400 percent. Federal law enforcement 708 percent, and revenue sharing 4,174 percent. These figures give the lie to all the current claims that we spend too much on defense and cant afford to buy the weapons we need to stay ahead of the Rusir anti-ballist- ic - long-rang- SS-1- 7, SS-1- 8, SS-1- 9, SS-1- 6, SS-2- 0. anti-ballist- ic sians. History will record that Richard Nixons greatest mistake was to appoint Henry Kissinger, and that Gerald Fords greatest mistake was to fall for the folly of Kissingers detente and his agreements with the Soviets which froze us in second place. Kissingers Legacy When historians describe the years 1969 to 1976, the name of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will emerge as more influential than Presidents Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford. Because Kissinger was probably the hardest working the wittiest, and the most popular public official during those years, criticism of him was rare. The beautiful girls in the 1974 Miss Universe contest voted him the greatest person in the world today. But will his legacy be good or had for the United States? The chief reason Kissinger rates so high in public opinion polls is his name identification. This is partially due to his constant participation in newsworthy happenings, his shuttle diplomacy, and his meetings with VIPs all over the world. His coverage is due even more, however, to the fact that he made himself the fountainhead of all important news on foreign policy and national defense. He gathered the strings of power into his own hands through his position on the National Security Council and his chairmanship of all important national security committees. As all roads once led to Rome, all channels of our facilities led to Kissinger. many intelligence-gatherin- g It is unlikely that there ever was a time in our history when so few people had access to sensitive information. Kissingers statements to the American people are always generously laced with phrases that connote stability such as new world order, structure of peace, and balance of power. Lets examine the high points of Kissingers eight-yea- r stewardship to see if these words are substance or illusion. The SALT Agreements of 1972 were negotiated by Kissinger and proclaimed to the world as a device to stop the spiraling arms race. They did, indeed, stop the United States from racing. Regrettably, they did not stop the Soviets, who have built and deployed five new series of intercontinental missiles since then. The Helsinki Agreement of 1975 was negotiated by Kissinger and proclaimed to the world as a means of getting the Soviets to permit freer movement of people and ideas in Eastern Europe. However, it only put the stamp of respectability and permanence on the borders closed by Soviet troops along the Iron Curtain. The Paris Agreement on Vietnam of January' 1973 was concocted by Kissinger and proclaimed to the world as a promise of peace. Even while he was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for this feat its inherent defects were obvious. When Kissinger agreed to allow North Vietnamese troops to remain in South Vietnam while U.S. troops pulled out, he sealed the doom of Southeast Asia. The fragile peace that Kissinger has wrought in the Middle East is laced together with tremendous amounts of American aid, first to one side, then to the other. Yet Israel would not have needed our aid if Kissinger had not snatched defeat from the jaws of victory' in 1973. After Egypt committed the surprise Yom Kippur attack, the Israelis countered with a daring and successful military' maneuver that trapped the Egyptian army on the wrong side of the Suez Canal, cut off from reinforcements. Kissinger then forced the Israelis to give up their victory and release the Egyptian army'. It is no wonder that, alter Jimmy Carter was elected, former Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan remarked: It is satisfying to know that Kissinger will be replaced. Finally, there was the African adventure. Kissinger did nothing to oppose the Cuban conquest with Soviet weapons of Angola, but he labored long and hard to overthrow the government of Rhodesia, even offering millions of American tax dollars to countries invading Rhodesia such as Communist Mozambique. Will the new world order that Kissinger negotiated collapse like Neville Chamberlains umbrella? anti-Commun- ist Harold Brown Appointment Harold Brown, former Secretary' of the Air Force and more recently president of California Institute of Technology, has emerged as one of the few controversial appointees in Jimmy Carters cabinet The military' headliners are critical of him because of his soft stance toward the Soviets during 2 years of SALT I negotiations in Helsinki and Vienna. The military softliners are critical of Brown because of his hawkish support of the Vietnam War. Contrary to popular assumption, these two policies are not contradictory but complementary. These two attitudes are the identifying characteristics of most of the leading defense and foreign of the Johnson and Nixon Administrations, including former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of State Vfc policy-make- rs Dean Rusk, former National Security Advisors McGeorge Bundy and Walt W. Rostow, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. These are the same leaders who have been telling us for more than a decade that our should be based security on U.S. -- Soviet agreements and U.S, restraint in weapons-bnildin- g instead of on U.S. military superiority. This was the group that prolonged the eight-yea- r wai in Vietnam by a policy of creeping escalation. The prod spelled out in the secret Pentagon Papers' ' that Daniel LI Is berg turned over to the New York Times and the Washington Post , and in the way Henry Kissinger pressed the panic button to try to plug the Ellsberg leak. The Pentagon Papers laid hare how the McNamara crowd prolonged the Vietnam War. The Kissinger policies on Vietnam were essentially the same. Pro)f that being hawkish on Vietnam and dovish on SALT is a wholly compatible position lies in the fact that the Soviet Union was the one who profited from both policies. The United S bites squandered 55,000 lives and $141 billion on a war that is now lost, on an ally who is now cm shed, and on weapons that are now destroyed or captured by the enemy. During that same period of time, the Soviets spent a comparable amount of money to build the m mightiest and most modern strategic force ever seen. i e.ST.! m The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand March 3, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 7 DEES TO WIPE OUT RIGHT WING the world has fo2V2 years and Moscow Summit of Ytrro The U.S negotiating team, of which HarM B'Jvn was a member was bached up by a large staff of ex perts and all die facilities of the National Security Couiil. the Defense and State Departments, and the U.S. Disarmament Agency. Yet the result was a document shot through with loopholes that advantage the Soviets and spell out our by a ratio of 3 to 2 Even the mechanics of the drafting were so defective that it was necessarv to issue tour different official interpretations. The best summary of the SALT I Agreements was Senator Jackson: by Henry given Simply put the the Soviets more of give everything more light ICBMs, more heavy ICBMs, more submarine launched missiles, more submarines, more pavload, even more ABM radars. In no area covered bv the agreements is the United States permitted to maintain paritv with the Soviet Union. Harold Brown was one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamaras principal lieutenants in conducting the ietnam tragedy that McNamara once said he would he glad to have known as McNamaras war. Harold Brown was one of Henry Kissingers principal lieutenants in negotiating the SALT I agreements. The Vietnam War made it financially impossible to build strategic weapons to stay ahead of the Soviets because our defense dollars were diverted into a bottomless pit in Southeast Asia. The SALT I agreements made it legally impossible to build strategic weapons even to maintain parity' with the Soviets. There are no contradictions or inconsistencies in Harold Browns record. Despite his Imst that he is not ideological, his actions mark him as a man who should be called Secretary of Unilateral Disannament instead of Secretary' of Defense. in-feno- ag-reeme- nts celled Eisenhowers plans for second thousand they have been able to prevent the building of an advanced strategic bomber to the 'Minuteman missiles. For a 14 years, replace aging It is a great tragedy that Americans did not heed B-5- Eisenhower s 2s. warning against the scientific-technologic- al elite. This group did capture U.S. public policy, and today is still persuading our leaders to persist in the folly of detente instead of meeting the challenge of reality. Harold Brown has been part of that elite for 15 years. Build the Bomber B- -l The CIA, which has a consistent record of always underestimating Soviet actions and capabilities, discovered in 1976 that the Soviet Union is devoting two and a half times as much of its Gross National Product to military expenditures as the CIA had previously estimated This new figure means that the Soviets are spending three times as much of their GNP for military weapons as the United States is spending of our GNP. Of course, the Soviets get much more bang for the buck because so much of our defense budget goes into personnel and fringe benefits instead of into hardware. The Soviets have thus put their money where their mouth is and sacrificed consumer production to their military goal of world superiority. This policy has paid big dividends. The Soviets have fielded three new ICBMs (two with multiple warhead capability) and are developing a fourth (which is probably mobile-basedThey have built 34 Polaris-typ- e and eleven submarines that carry submarines, missiles comparable in range to those we plan for our Trident but will not have until 1979. The Soviets have deployed the most advanced operational bomber in the world today, called the Backfire, which is years newer than our old standby, the In the face of this Soviet arms program, the United States should waste no time in going ahead with building the B- bomber and the cruise missile. Test flights of the B- have been a huge success. The B- is hacked up by 14 years and $1.5 billion in research and development. It is the most thoroughly studied and tested aircraft ever developed. It is only hut the B- carries s the size of the nearly twice the payload. It flies efficiently at super- sonic speeds but can take off and land on shorter mn). B-5- 2. -l Military-Industri- Complex al -l ou would think that the people who are always complaining about the Defense Department budget would cheer if the Pentagon saves money. But no. The recent announcement that the Defense Department underspent its budget by some $13 billion last year brought forth as much criticism as if it had overspent, plus demands to punish the Defense Department by reducing next years budget Some commentators also used this g announcement as an excuse to trot out the favorite cliche that President Eisenhower warned about the military-industricomplex. This is a classic example of taking a quotation out of context to misrepresent the authors meaning. The principal message of Eisenhow'ers Farewell Address of 1961 was his warning against the Soviet military threat: We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in Ieft-w'in- al -l The are great planes, but they are all at least 14 years old. We dont ask our President to drive around in an automobile that is 14 years old, and we shouldnt ask our pilots to depend on a plane that was B-5- 2s mass-produce- B-5- pow'er-seeker- s: scientific-technologic- al al semi-secr- et long-rang- 14 d years ago and represents the technology of nearly 20 years ago. The B- is the most versatile of all our potential weapons because, unlike missiles, it can be recalled after launch and its targets can he changed after launch. -l The Cruise Missile ... ration initiated and funded the three great weapons systems that still defend us today: the Minuteman missiles, the Polaris submarines, and the 2 bombers. President Eisenhow'er gave another important warning in his Farewell Address about an entirely different group of Yet in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, wre must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a elite. scientific-technologicelite of which The Eisenhower warned consisted principally of the men who attended the Pugwash Conferences, a series of meetings which take their name from Pugwash, Nova Scotia, the home of Cyrus Eaton, who hosted and bankrolled the first conference in 1957. Most of those who attend are Soviet and American nuclear scientists and government officials and advisers. The organizer of Pugwash was Lord Bertrand Russell, author of the famous slogan Rather Red than dead, and that is an accurate summary of what the e Pugwash Conferences are all about. Their objective was to eliminate the Eisenhower strategy of defending America through military superiority and to replace it with U.S. disarmament and accommodation of the Soviet Union. . . by articles this goal toward Pugwashers worked written for prestigious journals and research studies financed through the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Two of the most notorious were me 1963 reports called Phoenix Study and Study Fair. As soon as Eisenhower left the Wliite House, this elite flooded into government office. They successfully blocked all programs to build additional weapons over the ones Eisenhower had already ordered. They can- - -l 2, wavs. character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our amis must he mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. Based on this analysis, the Eisenhower Administ- B-5- two-third- John Connallv, former Cabinet official and Governor of Texas, recently predicted that President Jimmy Carter will be tested by the Soviets within the first 90 davs of his new administration. This statement by former Governor Connallv shows unusual perception about the men in the Krem- lin. Those who understand the Communists find it easy to forecast their actions. It is the regular practice of the Soviets to test each new American President to see what stuff he is made of, and whether he can be deceived, brainwashed, pushed, shoved, or intimidated by Soviet demands. Khrushchev tested President John F. Kennedy within five months of his taking office. Kennedy never gave an official report on his private conferences with Khrushchev at Vienna in 1961, but eventually the major facts leaked out. The crude and earthy Khrushchev ranted and raved, bullied and shouted. He threatened to move against West Berlin with all the might of the huge Soviet conventional military forces. He even threatened the use of nuclear weapons. He reminded Kennedy that the Soviets had developed the worlds first ICBNl even before they successfully orbited the worlds first artificial satellite. Sputnik I. After making his personal estimate of Kennedys character and vulnerabilities at Vienna, Khrushchev followed up with an additional test. It was a taunt that the United States was too liberal to fight defense of U.S. vital interests. even in When President Kennedy made no response, Khrushchev conspired with Kosygin and Castro to secretly ship offensive missiles to Cuba, thereby bringing most U.S. cities within minutes of nuclear attack. Gerald Ford was tested by the Soviets three months after he became President. Brezhnev invited Ford to Vladivostok in November 1974. d When President Ford arrived, Brezhnev him and then put him through an intensive nine-honegotiating session on Ford arms. was suffering from fatigue and jet-la- g strategic e after a 17,000-miltrip to the Far East. Brezhnev was rested and relaxed on his own home territory, and was supported by the two most experienced and dishonest negotiators in the world, Andrei Gromyko and Anatoly Dobrynin. Those were the same two diplomats who were publicly denounced by Kennedy for lying to him about missiles in Cuba in 1962. Brezhnev came out of that smoke-fille- d room with a SALT II agreement that puts no lid on the Soviet ate tainment of a capability against the United States. The Vladivostok agreement will permit the Soviets to MIRV all their giant 8 ICBMs plus a thousand other ICBMs. This total will he more than adequate to knock out all our Minuteman missiles. To the men in the Kremlin, President-elec- t Jimmy Carter is an unknown quantity. They will surely test him within months of his taking office, probably in an ordeal of summitry, in order to find out if he is made of steel or cotton-cand- y in dealing with the Russians. bear-hugge- SPOTLIGHT, Washington, D.C. 20003 (A digest of significant news items that failed to appear in most of the nations press.) WIPEOUT JOB. Morris Dees who, next to Phil Walden, is President Jimmy Carter's most valued told a money-raisclosed meeting of Carter insiders the other day: My first project ...will be to wipe out the right wing. I can do it in three months. Dees is a good choice as Carters hatchet man, being widely known as an combative aggressive and operator. A radical Zionist-leftis- t, Dees was George McGoverns chief money-raise- r in 1972. Being the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center hasnt stopped him from becoming a millionaire (theres a lot of money in poverty). As one of six lawyers defending accused murderess Joann Little, Judge Hamilton Hopgood gave him five minutes to get out of the courtroom after he tried to persuade a juror (a Negress) to commit perjury. Dees heads a secret task force which ... is looking for ways and means to bury all er groups eyeball-to-eyeba- ll ur ar- guing that we should cancel the B- and choose the cruise missile instead. Since the cruise missile is untested technology, the net effect of this proposal would be to delay the decision a couple more years. This type of postponement was a typical tactic of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. He called it reserving his options. He reserved his option on a new strategic bomber for the entire seven years he was in office and never did build one. The cruise missile is not a substitute for the Bbut supplementary to it. 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