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Andropov offers new
By AP and UPI
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov offered
a new arms control plan to guarantee a
future increase in nuclear warheads
because the Soviet military found his
earlier proposal too "dovish," a
Western expert saidyesterday.
Andropov, in a dramatic turnabout,
Tuesday offered to reduce the
Kremlin's nuclear arsenal on a.
warhead-by-warhead basis with the
West, but still left room for the Kremlin
to increase its warheads if the British
and French increase theirs, the analyst
said.
THE SOVIET leader's earlier
proposal, made Dec. 21, had insisted
disarmament talks set to resume May
17 be based on a' missile-by-missile
reduction. Western analysts said this
was unacceptable because it would give
the Soviets a clear advantage, since
many of Moscow's missiles have up to
three nuclear warheads.
"In the new proposal he has accepted
the idea that warheads are the most ef-
fective measurement of overall
strength," the Western analyst said.
Andropov, though seemingly ready
for compromise on warheads, did not
yield on his demand that French and
British forces are included in for-
mulating a weapons treaty.
PRESIDENT Reagan said yesterday
that Andropov's new arms control
proposal is encouraging because it in-
dicates the superpowers are moving
closer to the same approach on cutting
their arsenals of nuclear weapons.
arms plan
Reagan said Andropov's surprise of-
fer will be given "serious con-
sideration, as we do with any proposal
that they make."
The president acknowledged the offer
contains the condition, rejected by the
United States, that British and French
forces be counted along with U.S.
missiles set for deployment in Europe
said it will take time to determine
whether Andropov is sincere or advan-
cing the East-West propaganda war.
"The encouraging thing," Reagan
said in an interview with six White
House reporters, "was that he made a
proposal and it was a proposal aimed at
something that has been a con-
sideration of ours, and that is that we
should be negotiating warheads and not
just missiles.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House
yesterday passed, 278-149, the long-
debated resolution calling for a
"mutual and verifiable" nuclear
weapons freeze, but only after
President Reagan's forces won a key
concession tying a freeze to a reduction
in weapons.
The vote came after GOP leaders
seized on the announcement of a new
Soviet arms reduction proposal in a
successful effort to water down the
freeze resolution. They said the Soviet
offer showed the need for giving the
president more flexibility in
negotiating ahalt to the arms race.
The freeze resolution, which is non-
binding and largely symbolic, now goes
to the Republican-controlled Senate,
where its fate is uncertain.
Final passage came shortly after
freeze advocates suffered a major set-
back with the House's 221-203 approval
of the administration-supported amen-
dment by Reps. Henry Hyde, R-IlI., and
Elliot H. Levitas, D-Ga., making a
freeze and arms reductions a package
deal.
The vote was a partial victory for the
Reagan administration, which had in-
sisted that reductions in weapons be
negotiated before a freeze. Until
yesterday's vote, the freeze proposal
would have encouraged reduc-
tions-but only after the freeze was in
place.
The president has argued that this
country is already behind the Soviets in
the arms race, particulary in land-
based missiles, and that a freeze
without accompanying reductions
would look the United States into this
position of inferiority.
The new arms control proposal un-
veiled late Tuesday by Soviet leader
Yuri Andropov figured prominently in-
to yesterday's floor debate.
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