The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 10, 1983 - Page 3 Blanchard announces jobs bill Iieju ofua 1 et unions anb . ey isue comiies LfANSING (U1 ) Gov. James Blanchard - saying Michigan cannot sit back and await a promised recover- y - unveiled to a cheering Legislature yesterday an economic program expec- ted to create 80,00 jobs this summer. Blanchard was interrupted by ap- plause more than 20 times while outlining to a joint session of the Legislature, and a statewide radio and television audience, his plan for a $75 million youth jobs program and a public works effort fueled by $300 million in state bonds. IT IS substantially more ambitious than many had expected and received expressions of support from Republicans and Democrats. Blanchard said, "We should keep our committment to our young people and our workers - to invest in their skills, Blanchard their education and their training - to ... pulls for education equip them to hold the jobs of today and Nuclear game the joas of the zest century. "The across-the-board increase in support for education in my budget is a down-payment on this committment - for it reverses the dangerous trend of decay and neglect of the past few years in Michigan's educational system. HOWEVER, the drive for strong cen- tral coordination of higher education in Michigan got poor grades from some college officials attending a special day-long seminar in the capital yester- day. Wayne State University President David Adamany was especially out- spoken, calling it "a diversionary side issue from gross underfunding of higher education in Michigan." Adamany was one of several speakers who addressed the seminar, called Impact of Coordination in Higher unions and key legislative committees. THE Legislature and Blanchard currently are considering a number of proposals for studying higher education in Michigan. Some feel the study could lead to closing one or two of the state's smaller colleges. Proponents see coordination as a means of saving money by avoiding duplication and overlap in academic programs. The present Michigan system Adamany said, is "better than it's given credit for." THE STATE'S system remains in the top quarter in the nation for access and quality, even though its funding is in the bottom quarter, he said. The independence of Michigan's colleges, he suggested, "helps explain the suess Michioan has had in very (Continued from Page 1) nuclear arms at the top of the presiden- tial campaign agenda. At Minot Air Force Base headquar- ters in North Dakota, Jake Jaques sighs when asked about "the freeze." "I don't think people understand it. If we had a freeze we wouldn't be able to build the MX. We'd freeze ourselves in- to inferiority," said the cool, dark- haired colonel. "I'm disturbed by what I see. We're working here with 20-year-old weapons systems, but the Soviets keep developing new systems." IN MINOT, at the Pentagon, in Europe's capitals, in the Kremlin, the nuclear debate will grow more shrill as 1983 wears on. The outcome of the debate, and especially of the superpower negotiations in Geneva, could well set the course of World politics for the rest of the century. Up and down the honeycomb corridors of the Pentagon, men and women are busy planning for the war they hope will never come. IN THE 27 months of the Reagan presidency, the United States has em- barked on the biggest peacetime military buildup in its history. The program, heavy with new missiles, submarines and bombers for the nuclear force, would cost $1.5 trillion over five years. It has a dual goal: meeting what is seen as a dangerous Soviet military challenge, and giving the United States "leverage" to use on the Soviet Union at the arms-control bargaining table. Some U.S. strategists contend their counterparts in Moscow believe the Soviet Union can fight and win a nuclear war. "PEOPLE just don't understand, from a strategic-targetting point of view, how very powerful their land- based missile force is," said Ronald Lehman, a deputy assistant defense secretary who is among those chiefly responsible for U.S. strategic policy. In two decades of rapid military growth, the Soviet Union has drawn even with the United States-and some say passed it - in strategic nuclear power. The newest, "fourth-generation" Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles are about as accurate as the best the Americans have - the Minuteman III. And the huge Soviet SS- 18's 10 warheads are packed with five times the Minuteman's nuclear devastation - at least five megatons, the equivalent of 5 million tons of TNT. BUT TO the war "scenarists" in the Kremlin, U.S. capabilities may be just as intimidating. The Soviets stack most of the nuclear chips on land-based missiles. But the United States has built a versatile valanced nuclear arsenal, a "triad" of land-based ICBMs, submarine-laun- ched missiles and heavy long-range bombers. "On balance," President Reagan concluded last year, "the Soviet Union does have a definite margin of superiority." MANY SPECIALISTS disagree, saying "superiority" is a meaningless word when each side stocks enough warheads to annihilate the other several times over. But those whose job it is to ponder such things - the "nuclear war priesthood," as they have been called - are concerned about one frailty in the U.S. armor: the potential for a Soviet "first strike." "The Soviet Union has enough missiles, with enough warheads, with enough yield, with enough accuracy, to destroy our Minuteman missiles in their silos," was how Lehman summed up the problem in an interview. MANY ANALYSTS say the Soviet leadership would never risk a first strike. But the theoretical potential remains, and the Reagan ad- ministration is grappling with the quandary in two ways, at the negotiating table and in the military budget. In the Geneva negotiations, the opening U.S. proposal would slash the Soviet advantage in land-based missiles. It calls for reducing both sides' missile-launched warheads by about one-third to 5,000, and for settinga limit of 2,500 on the number of land-based warheads. MATCH-UPS of deadly but perishable weapons could force the superpowers to put their missile launch crews on hair-trigger alert, hyper- sensitive in times of international crisis. In the same way, Reagan's "vision of the future" speech March 23, calling for development of an advanced anti- missile defense, shows how technology can swiftly upset global balances. Deploying such a system would open a new track in the arms race, a defensive competition that arms controllers have long sought to suppress. Education, which was sponsored by the state Education Department, faculty See BLANCHARD, Page 10 haunts players In Washington, Reagan's Democratic what you have to do in this business, opponents accuse him of a wrong- you have to be thinking, 'Where will this headed approach to arms control, or of all take us?' " the ulterior motive of seeking untram- At the moment, it is taking the United meled military superiority. States and its newest class of weapons "The real issue is, how do you main- to the heart of Europe. And the climax tain the deterrent over the years," will come not in years, but in months. Lehman asked. "I'm constantly thinking 10 years down the road. That's Thursday: West Germany as the center of nuclear terror. An appleaaay...fruits Apples are only some of the farm-fresh fruits and vegetables available at Ann Arbor's farmers' market on Detroit Street near Kerrytown Market. It is now open Wednesday and Saturday from 7 a.m.-3 p.m.