| Show SENATOR GARN VISITS By Dennis Long Senator Jake Garn visited visited visited vis vis- and talked extensively extensively extensively ex ex- about two controversial controversial controversial con con- topics the draft for men and women and the MX missile Calling the draft cosmetic cosmetic cos superficial and political political political po po- he said it di diverts diverts diverts di- di verts from the real issues He opposes the draft for both men and women and called for an all volunteer army using the reserves as a back up Senator Garn stated In HIn the Vietnam war the government sent the draftees instead of the reserves to fight and it should have been the other way around He believes that the reserves should have been sent first He also said that lately highly trained personnel are leaving the armed forces after as much as 12 years of active duty and without adequately adequate adequate- ly trained leaders or equipment it would be superficial for the draft Although warfare has changed dramatically it does not change the type of person we need Senator Garn said In reference to drafting women he voiced his opposition opposition opposition op op- position but mentioned that if women want to volunteer r for combat duty let them But only if they volunteer Senator Garn stated that he favors the MX missile missile missile mis mis- sile saying that We HWe need needa a survivable missile for forthe forthe forthe the minuteman as Russia can knock 95 percent of ours out on the first strike He is opposed to the race track system and believes that the missiles missiles missiles mis mis- siles should be deployed through the silo method In answer to questions about the MX missile making Utah a target for attack he said Utah is not on an island and to say that Utah is not already a target is impractical With Hill Air Force base Hercules Hercules Hercules Her Her- cules and other defense operations in Utah its it's very self centered to think we arent aren't already a target without the MX The speech took on ona ona ona a political note when I Senator Garn said Any HAny j Republican candidate on his worst day would be I better than Jimmy Carter Carteron on his best day |
