The Michigan Daily-Thursday, May 8, 1980-Page 15 Proposals to shift MX missile off U.S. coast heard by Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - Proposals to shift the controversial MX mobile missile system to submarines or sur- face ships off the U.S. coast were presented to a Senate subcommittee yesterday. Witnesses, including high-ranking retired military officers and scientists specializing in defense issues, told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on military construction that plans to deploy the MX in the western deserts carry serious flaws. "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to target a mobile force at sea on schedule," said retired Adm. Thomas Moorer, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) that are fixed in the middle of the country can be targeted 10 years in advance." Moorer and his colleagues followed a day of testimony by Pentagon officials, who argued that the land-based MX design is virtually complete and should be approved by Congress. As envisioned by the Pentagon, the MX system would put 200 missiles on mobile launchers and shuttle them among 4,600 hardened shelters, most likely in the desert valleys of Utah and Nevada. BY SHUTTLING real and simulated missiles among the shelters, the Pen- Carter stays at home during Tito ' funeral (Continued from Page 14) aligned course in world affairs. assure you flat the relations of frien- U.S. Ambassador Lawrence S. dship and mutual understanding, which Eagleburger told reporters, "No one, Tito helped build between our two coun- no Yugoslav, has indicated the least tries, will be sustained and unhappiness to me" over Carter's strengthened in the future." decision. Mondale's words of support may help American officials privately defen- sooth any ruffled feelings caused by ded Carter's decision to send Mondale, Carter's absence from the funeral. Car- saying Mondale had visited Yugoslavia ter, French President Valery Giscard in 1977 and had helped American- d'Estaing and Cuban President Fidel Yugoslav relations move toward what Castro were the only prominent world Washington considers their best level leaders to stay at home. since World War II. Other leaders who will attend Thur- Mondale met for an hour with sday's state funeral include Chinese Yugoslav officials and assured them Premier Hua Guofeng, Britain's Prime the United States would "be of help if Minister Margaret Thatcher, West we are asked," American sources said. German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Mondale, Treasury S:e cretary G. Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira of William Miller, and New York Federal Japan and Prime Minister Indira Gan- Reserve Bank President Anthony dhi of India. Solomon met with a Yugoslav group All of the Soviet Union's Eastern headed by Lazar Kolqsevski, successor European Communist allies also sent to Tito as president of the country's their top leaders in a show of respects collective Presidency. for the Communist leader who suc- Belgrade airport had the busiest day cessfully resisted Moscow's domination in its history, with aircraft landing and charted Yugoslavia on a non- every 15 to 30 minates. tagon says, Soviet spy satellites could not tell where the real missiles are, making it virtually impossible to destroy them ina Soviet attack. But the Senate subcommittee was told yesterday that, while it's true present U.S. missile forces are becoming vulnerable to Soviet missiles, the MX is not necessarily the answer. The MX could be targeted just as the present Minuteman fleet, the panel was told. Moorer and others said a sea-based system would be better, most likely in small, quiet submarines carrying two to four missiles each that would stay relatively close to the U.S. coastline. "THE ONLY significant difference from the MX missiles on land will be that the mini-submarine missiles can- not be located and are thus not targetable, so their potential vulnerability is much less," said Her- bert Scoville Jr., president of the Arms Control Association. "Diversity in strategic forces will be maintained even though two legs of the new triad will be at sea," he said. "There is nothing sacred about a triad which requires one leg to be on land, one at sea and one in the air." And Dr. Sidney Drell of Stanford University, a consultant to the National Security Council, said fears that such a system could be vulnerable to artificial "tidal waves" created by Soviet nuclear blasts in the water are groun- dless. He said that is a hazard only in waters less than 400 feet deep, while the subs would be based in deeper water. Another military expert, retired Navy Capt. John E. Draim, argued for an even simpler system - floating missiles that could be fired while bob- bing vertically in the ocean. He said such missiles, not requiring elaborate launch vehicles, could even use freighters for transport and be dropped in the water, ready for launch, during military alerts. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the new U.S. defense effort should concei- trate on putting heat-seeking anti- ballistic missiles in orbit, where they can destroy Soviet missiles before they ever reach U.S. airspace. Do aTree a Favor: Recycle Your Daily "To the heart of the campus," she said. CAFETERIA HOURS; So the League's where the cab driver sped. 11:30-1:15 'Cause it's very well known, 5:00-7:15 When you're out on your own, That the League's a good place to be fed. 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