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Co nvention Reorts~u.
Muskie blasts
GOP platform,
says will lead
to arms race
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of
State Edmund Muskie criticized the
Republican Party yesterday for calling
for military superiority over the Soviet
Union, saying that would result in "N
ongoing arms race."
"He said that, if carried out, the plat-
form goal would severely limit prospec-
ts -of agreements to curb nuclear
weapons.
MUSKIE SAID he doubts the
American people will support an ex-
pensive arms buildup because it would
cut into their standard of living.
"It is going to be enormous," Muskie
said of the costs of the defense program
Ronald Reagan appears committed to
adopting if elected president.
"On the face of it, the result will be an
ongoing arms race," Muskie said in an
interview with The Associated Press
Knd two other wire services.
"NOW, IF THE American people
believe that an ongoing arms race in
the pursuit of superiority is in their in-
terest, then they have got to learn the
cost."
At the same time, Muskit criticized,
former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger's support of the platform
plank as inconsistent with his own
"parity" policy, whichwas the basis for
SALT agreements with the Soviet
Union.
"How can you expect to achieve
superiority, either for the Russians or
ourselves, and persuade the other to
accept that imbalance to its own
detriment in a treaty?" Muskie asked.
"On the face of it that isn't human
nature."
MUSKIE SEEMED restrainedi
replying to Kissinger's wide-rangin
attack Tuesday night at the GOP co
vention on Carter administratio
foreign policies.
"It's his prerogative to make
political speech," Muskie said. "He
no longer secretary of state. He mayc
may not want to be a part of a ne
Republican administration, but I ju
want to be very careful to avoid makin
apolitical statement."
And yet, Muskie accused Kissingerc
ignoring the Soviet invasion c
Afghanistan in his attack on the a
ministration for abandoning its que
for neutralization of the Indian Ocea
region.
THE RED Army's interventioni
late December "put an entirely di
ferent complexion on the whole area,
Muskie said. "He regards that as a no:
event, appalently."
Similarly, Muskie defended the at
ministration's effort to aid NicaraguE
whose ruling junta is controlled by Sar
dinistas. Congress has approved a
authorization of $75' million after
tough fight.
With extremists on the left and rig]
vying for control of the Centr
American country, "we want to mak
possible the strengthening of the cer
ter," Muskie said.
On another subject, Muskie said
combination of economic an
diplomatic pressures on Iran migh
persuade authorities in .Tehran t
release the 52 American hostages sti
held there.
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ht DETROIT MAY LOVE a good party, but this unidentified delegate to the
al Republican National Convention apparently does not. The snoozing conven-
e tioneer was photographed during the Tuesday night session, which ran into the
n- wee hours of yesterday morning.
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ll avoids Detroit, GOP
DETROIT (AP) - He's the missing BUT HIS advice is no longer sought,
man, the toast of Republican conven- his counsel ignored, the accomplish-
tions of decades past, now but a remin- ments of his presidency unheralded.
der of an embarrassing era, unmen- ,Yet, many of his one-time lieutenants
tioned but not yet forgotten. are here: Henry Kissinger, William
Richard Nixon has stayed away from Simon, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard
the 1980 GOP convention. Moore, Anne Armstrong, Ronald
The former president, who resigned Ziegler, and Dwight Chapin.
in disgrace during the Watergate scan- They were Cabinet secretaries, White
dal, is visiting friends in Florida, House aides, and key advisers in his
probablyin touch with convention administration. Some are bringing the
proceedings by television, and, fame they achieved during his ad-
perhaps, by telephone. mministration to this convention, where
they are speakers and advisers to the
campaign of the new GOP hero, Ronald
Reagan. Some are only wandering the
convention hall, participants turned ob-
servers.
BUT SOME remain loyalists.
"Nobody here will say so, but the old
man doesn't look so bad now," said one
who hopes for a job if Reagan is elected
president and doesn't want his name
EVERY MOPM linked to the former president.
WA OFRDCERESNo one doubts that Nixon still has a
GRALYR CECESkeen interest in politics and the
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