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Reagan forges arms sales policy
e .e that sell weapons had shown little interest in
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan ad- The Carter admiistration, with support from limitations.
ministration formally declared yesterday it would Congress, limited sales to otherwise friendly coun- "In the absence of such interest, the United States
sell arms to friendly countries without looking too tries with poor human rights records. It also tried to will not jeopardize its own security needs through a
closely at their human rights policies. engage the Soviet Union in negotiations to cut down program of unilateral restraint," the statementasid.
The new guideline dumps former President Car- weapons deals. THERE WAS no immediate word on which par-
ter's rule against weapons deliveries to countries THE NEW POLICY represents a major shift in ticular countries would benefit from the switch. The
with a record of citizen abuse, and it also marks the both respects. administration has already asked Congress to lift the
end of "unilateral restraint" since the Soviet Union Human rights will not be the "sole criterion" in ban on weapons sales to Argentina and has
moved ahead with a robust military sales program. deciding whether to arm another country, one of the authorized joint military exercises with Chile. It has
"We will deal with the world as it is, rather than as officials said. He called the new approach "the also asked for repeal of the Clark amendment, which
we would like it to be" an administration statement traditional American view. stopped aid to anti-government forces in Marxist
said. President Reagan and his aides have frequently Angola.
TWO SENIOR officials, briefing reporters, denied derided former President Carter's heavy reliance on The new policy will consider the military threat
the policy would usher in a new arms race. the human rights conduct of various nations as a posed to potential buyers, whether such a sale may
"We are playing some modest catchup," one of- means to decide whether they deserved U.S. arms. enhance the recipient's ability to work with the
ficial said. The other predicted U.S. sales of non- THE WHITE HOUSE statement, meanwhile, said United States in collective security efforts, the effect
nuclear weapons would remain at the current level of the administration remained interested in Soviet of a sale on a region's stability, and the ability of a
about $14 billion to $15 billion a year. Both prohibited proposals for restraint. recipient to afford and absorb all of the equipment
disclosure of their names. But, it said, the Russians and most other countries safely.
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faculty member. -
"I am definitely interested in some
cooperative action" between the
universities, said Cyert who said he
may have enlisted the aid of Sen. Ed-
ward Kennedy (D-Mass.), and
Congressman Leach from Iowa, to for-
tify that of Sen. John Heinz (R-Pa.). -
University President Harold Shapiro
said yesterday afternoon he was --
"trying to get in touch with (his)
colleagues at Carnegie Mellon and
Minnesota," and said from the basis of , .
the information in The Michigan Daily
there is reason to be "gravely concer- -"-
nted." .. r
The University of Minnesota is in- :
volved in this triangle of universities
because of the recent imprisonment of........ ... .. "
a former Minnesota student, Rita Yeh ,
who was sentenced to 14 years im -:
prisonment last January in Taiwan.
CMU PRESIDENT Cyert said he -.
wants to get a little more pressure put *
on the State Department in order to get -
an investigation of the alleged murder
of Chen. -
State Department Spokesman Ken
Bailes said they have asked the
American Institute of Taiwan to
provide the State Department with in-
formation on the case and he said he
"hopes the Taiwanese authorities will
investigate the circumstances of his
(Chen's) death."
Bailes added that the State Depar- T.. .
tment doesn't have any legal authority c
in Taiwan to conduct a police in-
vestigation. 66 - --
BUT CYERT said, "They (Taiwan's _
government) shouldn't be allowed to
get away with that (the alleged murder
of Chen)," and called for "action to
protect the Taiwanese students in
America."
Asked the question of whether there
are "secret agents" working for the
Taiwanese government at the
American universities, Cyert respon-
ded, "There is a suspicion that a large F
number of Taiwanese students are on = '
the payroll" of the government.
Similar allegations of "secret gover- f f
nment agents" have been heard from
Taiwanese students at this campus, but
Shapiro said "one has to be really
- care ap'thst,(those kind of