Page 4-Friday, May 14, 1982-The Michigan Daily Reagan pushes arms reduction in TV address WASHINGTON (AP)- President Reagan says his determination to rebuild U.S. defenses will help prod the Soviet Union into negotiating strategic arms reductions that would supplant the shelved SALT II treaty that "simply legitimizes an arms race." Reagan opened last night's prime- time news conference with a review of the strategic arms reduction proposal- START-he unveiled in a Sunday ad- dress at Eureka College in Illinois. He said START is the right approach because SALT II, never ratified but ob- served by both sides, would have per- mitted massive buildups in nuclear weaponry. THERE HAVE been calls for revival of that treaty, and Reagan was told by a questioner that it was at least a bird in the hand. "This bird isn't a very frien- dly bird," Reagan said, recalling that the Senate did not ratify SALT II during the Carter administration. "The reason why it was refused ratification," he said, was that the treaty would allow "the Soviet Union to just about double its nuclear capability." He said the pact would also allow a U.S. buildup and thus "it simply legitimizes a nuclear arms race." Reagan said that first phase of START would deal with the most dangerous and destabilizing weapons in the arsenals of the superpowers- warheads on landbased missiles. "These are the most frightening to most people,'' Reagan said, because "once launched, that's it." REAGAN SAID that reaching agree- ment on "balanced, equal and verifiable" levels of strategic nuclear weapons will not be short or easy work, but Moscow and the Soviet people un- derstand the importance of restraining the arms race. "Iwant to reduce my pledge ... that the United States will do everything we can to bring such an agreement about," Reagan said. While SALT II is not in force, both sides have been observing its terms. Reagan said the sections that are being observed involve the monitoring of weaponry. "What we are striving for is to reduce the power, the number and particularly those destabilizing missiles that can be touched off by the push of a button," he said. Reagan said he wants reductions, and "there's no ratio between that and what SALT was attempting to do." WHILE conservative critics have denounced the conservative president's arms reduction proposals, Reagan said they were not at odds with his past position. "I think I'm being consistent," he said. "It took me a little time to get there. We hadsome other things to do." "To be acceptable, a new arms agreement with the Soviets must be balanced, equitable and verifiable," Reagan said. "Tonight I want to renew my pledge . . . that the United States will do everything in its power to bring that about." InBrief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Pope gives thanks in Portugal hours after assassination attempt Fatima, Portugal - Pope John Paul II - ignoring an attempt on his life hours before - thanked the Virgin Mary yesterday in a trembling voice for saving him from assassination in Rome exactly one year ago. He made no reference to the attempt on his life here Wednesday by a bayonet-wielding man in priest's robes. Portuguese police and sources in Geneva said the attacker, Spaniard Juan Fernandez Krohn, was ordained several years ago by rebel Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in defiance of Vatican orders, but broke with the traditionalist movement two years ago. The Spaniard is being charged with attempted murder. The pontiff started his day by meeting with Sister Lucia dos Santos, the last survivor of the three shepherd children who had visions of the Virgin in 1917. Then he celebrated Mass on the steps of the Shrine of Fatima before more than 500,000 people. Wallace to run again for governor MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Former segregationist George Wallace will an- nounce May 22 his candidacy for an unprecedented fourth term as Alabama governor, this time with black support. The 62-yearold Wallace confirmed yesterday the announcement would come at a barbecue in Montgomery. He will be reentering politics just one week after the 10th anniversary of an assassination attempt that left him a wheelchair-bound cripple. "I intend to run a vigorous campaign," Wallace said. "I've got the ex- perience it takes to make a good governor and the polls indicate I have the backing around the state to win the election." Wallace, who is paralyzed from the wait down says his health is no problem "I have.no complaints to make," he said. "As I have said before, my health is good." May car sales up 18.2 percent DETROIT-Domestic car sales were up 18.2 percent in the first 10 days of May compared with the 1981 period, marking the industry's best early-May performance in three years, the carmakers said yesterday. General Motors Corp. led the way with a 30.6 percent increase in the May 1-10 period over a year ago, while Ford Motor Co. was up 5.1 percent and Chrysler Corp. showed a 2.5 percent increase, the automakers said. American Motors Corp. was estimated to be down 27.3 percent from a year ago and Volkswagen of America Inc. said its sales, also an estimate because of problems with dealer paperwork, were off 37.2 percent. The daily selling rate of 19,901 cars was the highest since 1979, when 27,236 were sold each day in the period. However, auto industry analysts remained pessimistic about a quick recovery in the industry, especially because GM sales were being compared with a weak early May period in 1981. Sales increases recorded by the Big Three automakers likely reflect the incentive plans they are offering in an effort to lure stubborn buyers to showrooms. Poles stow away to freedom BALTIMORE- Two young Polish men who spent 18 days hidden aboard a freighter bound for Canada kicked their way out of a crate and found them- selves in a warehouse here surrounded by astonished longshoremen, authorities said. The pair looked "haggard and weak," but their eyes lit up when they were told they were in the United States, according to witnesses. The men began speaking Polish and pointed to a booklet bearing the word "Solidarity," the name of the underground Polish labor movement. Federal immigration officials said Wednesday the men, both in their early 20s, probably would be granted political asylum. "I'm sure they'll remain in the United States," said Wallace Gray, regional director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 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