Page 10-Tuesday, May 25, 1982-The Michigan Daily KREMLIN QUELLS DEBATE, PROTESTS MOSC rhetoric Soviet le informat arms r ,c affect hE Soviet televisio counts, strations Europe and dem controlle The Ki courager outside t Western fo bring vanceSo THE Soviet moveme: of "Relii Gift of Li held in M The Ru delegate Soviet U ference c sole blan the Unite Soviets quiet on nuclear role By The Associated Press U.S. clergymen at the gathering ex- own force levels with civilian Soviets In contrast, uniforme OW-Despite a roar of Kremlin pressed concern over its anti-American present. clothes police quickly de on the dangers of nuclear war, tone, but their remarks were ignored by Although Brezhnev regularly ad- western Europeans in RE aders give their citizens little Soviet news media. Westerners at the vocates reducing the nuclear stockpiles April 19 after they tried ion on Moscow's role in the conference also criticized a Soviet of the two superpowers, no one in the pamphlets urging the Kri ce or how a nuclear war would decision to bar Dutch delegate Wim country has dared to call publicly for world hunger by realloc em. Bartels from delivering a speech con- unilateral disarmament. See SOVIETS. Pa newspapers and radio and demning the nuclear policies of both Despite Soviet support of western n reports are filled with ac- Moscow and Washington. peace activists, Soviet leaders tolerate C - M about anti-nuclear demon- WESTERNERS TAKING part in the no anti-war sentiment at home. Nikolai in the United States, western conference, unaccustomed to the Ogarkov, first deputy defense minister and Japan, but public debate workings of Soviet society, were ap= and chief of staff, warned in a recent onstrations on arms are tightly parently surprised by Kremlin tactics book of the need to counter growing exam fl.n £ d here. at the conference. pacifism among Soviet youth. remlin has given generous en- Soviet leaders debate their nuclear OFFICIAL SOVIET media, movies ment to the pacifist movement strategy behind closed doors, with vir- and popular literature play their role in stuaen t .he socialist bloc, a role that tually no information leaked to the shaping the popular view of war and leaders charge is designed not public. overcome their silence on the effect of a peace to the world, but to ad- The names and numbers of Soviet nuclear war with heroic and tragic ID ca rd viet strategic interests. nuclear weapons go unmentioned in the tales from World War II. Twenty MOST RECENT example of Soviet press. The exception came last million Soviet people died in the con- (Continuedfrom Page support for the "peace fall in an interview given by President flict. committee and the mange nt" was the World Conference Leonid Brezhnev. He disclosed The Kremlin is also careful in datssystems for the Unia gious Workers for Saving the estimated levels of Soviet medium manipulating public demonstrations. dnu sefdrtens fe from Nuclear Catastrophe," range nuclear weapons deployed During a May 1 parade, thousands of number of department oscow May 10-14. against wesrern Europe. Soviet workers marched through Red University - including ssian Orthodox organizers and THE SOVIET NAMES of nuclear Square pushing large, wheeled signs Housing Division - a. s from countries friendly to the armaments are not used publicly. hearing approved slogans against the photo ID cards. - a resul Inion have steered the con- Western arms control negotiators have neutron bomb and North Atlantic cost of converting all close to the soviet line, laying reported that the Kremlin penchant for Treaty Organization plans to deploy cards might not be as ex ne for the nuclear build-up on secrecy is so pervasive that Soviet Tomahawk cruise. and Pershing II would be otherwise. dStates. military leaders will not discuss their missiles in western Europe. d and plain- tained -seven ed Square on to distribute emlin to ease ating money age 11 tee e3) ger of student 'ersity, said a s within the the Medical ol, and the lready issue lt, he said, the identification pensive as it 4 THOMSON SAID preliminary estimates indicate that the cost of an individual card would triple - from roughly 50 cents to $1.50 - if a picture were added. The actual cost of a photograph for a card is somewhere between 50 and 60 cents, he said, but additional costs would push the total price up. "The plastic stock we have now is kind of cheap," he said. A number of departments within the University, including Recreational Sports and the Safety Department, have been pressing for a picture ID, accor- ding to committee members. "RIGHT NOW, one of the big games around is to steal students' iden- tification cards and then use them to gain access to one of our facilities," said Recreational Sports Director Mike Stevenson. He said such unauthorized use of recreational facilities was un- fair to students and was causing "a fairly large theft problem" within the University's recreation buildings. Walt Stevens, director of the Safety Department, said a picture ID would helpfight trespassing by non-students in University buildings. Plice said his committee will present its findings to the Executive Officers of the University, who will make the decision on whether to switch to a new card. He said the logistics of making and distributing the cards woud have to be worked out after his committee makes its report. Plice discounted concerns that a pic- ture ID might be an invasion of privacy. "I would suppose there are some people who would like to remain anonymous," Plice said, "but there's a difference between privacy and anonymity. In a public institution, I don't know if you can have anonymity. I don't think so, but I'm sure others have a different point of view." "I've heard there's some question that this is an invasion of their civil liberties," said Stevenson. "Why they think that, I don't know ... To my knowledge, we've never had a non- student refuse to purchase a user's pass (which requires a Recreational Sports photo ID card), and we've issued up- wards of 25,000 of them." Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Promenade left University Square Dance Club members enjoy a little outdoor recreation as they doe-see-doe in the middle of Regents Plaza last night. National ID cards considered LOS ANGELES (AP)- Attorney General William French Smith said last week the Reagan administration is "open to the alternative" of a national identity card, but added it wants to try existing identification systems first. It was the first time the Reagan ad- ministration had indicated it was not opposed to plans for creating a nation- wide identity card to deal with illegal immigration. SMITH REVEALED the administra- tion's change of policy by deleting a sentence from a speech he delivered on immigration policy to the California Chamber of Commerce. The deleted sentence, midway through the prepared text, read, "The administration is opposed to the creation of a national identity card." Asked afterward about the last- minute change, Smith downplayed its importance. "ALL WE'RE saying is that we are open to all alternatives," he said. "But we want first to try existing iden- tification systems such as Social Security cards and'drivers' licenses." Otherwise, Smith broke no new ground in lobbying for the ad- ministration's immigration reform package now before Congress. In the past, proposals to issue national identity cards have drawn severe criticism, especially from Hispanic organizations and legal aid groups. Those critics claim a national identity card would be a violation of privacy statutes and would be aimed unduly at large immigrant populations.