OPINION
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No gold ticket
HE NEWEST Soviet proposal in the ongoing
attempt to limit nuclear arms in Europe is
a null solution as it offers no basis for further
negotiation and only emphasizes the many
points ofudisagreement that still need to be
worked out.
The measures, which Soviet Premier Yuri
Andropov presented Tuesday, would reduce the
number of Soviet warheads in Europe to the
same level set by NATO nations. The problem
with this proposal is that Andropov is drawing
NATO into arms negotiations which have been
previously restricted to the U.S. and the Soviet
Union.
Andropov's proposal would sell the U.S. short
by including 162 French and British owned
nuclear weapons in the number of missiles
allotted to the U.S. These and any other
weapons owned by our NATO allies would also
be included under the Soviet plan.
The British government has already said it
would refuse to participate in such an accord
and one can hardly fault them. Only after the
U.S. and Soviet Union have set an arms ceiling,
they say, can NATO nations be brought into the
negotiations.
The Russians, on the other hand, cannot be
expected to negotiate with the U.S. as long as
the threat of attack by other NATO nations is
still present. Any agreement with the U.S. alone
would put them at a substantial disadvantage.
Rather than bringing the United States and
Soviet Union closer together, the remarks by
Andropov reestablish the chasm that still
separates the two nations and make a com-
prehensive solution even more elusive.
The pursuit of limited nuclear arsenals is an
admirable endeavor, but the Soviets can not
expect the United States to blindly grab at
peace proposals without fully considering the
ramifications. Andropov's proposal is a step in
the right direction, but in no way is it the
golden ticket to nuclear disarmament in
Europe.
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LETTERS TO THE DAILY:
True peace needed today
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To the Daily:
The letter by Randy Watson in
the Daily of April 15 made me feel
good all day. The need for peace
has never been so strong before.
Not one of us can overlook this
today. We as people, as human
beings, are the only ones to make
our world better. Although we all
realize the need for peace,
somehow we all try to forget it in
our daily lives. We seem to say,
"everything will be OK, or even if
they are not OK, even if
something will someday destroy
us... well, what the heck!"
Or maybe once in a while some
of us will join the peace
procession, the nuclear freeze
rally or the like, and the rest of us
will forget about it the next
moment. If we are to stall the
ominous march of destruction,
we all have to take that right step
forward.
Our daily lives, the way we deal
with our neighbors, our co-
workers, our children, our
bosses, and on and on, all tran-
slate in a not so obvious way into
matters of national and global in-
portance. Just the bomb is no
threat, but the attitude of emnity,
the hatred, the greed for power
all raise the possibility of their use
leading to mass-destruction.
If we are to achieve true peace
we must not only freeze the
bomb, but freeze all the evil for-
ces that are likely to put this
otherwise innate mixture of
radioactive chemicals into use to
destroy the most beautiful thing
of all, life.
We all have to learn to reduce
hatred for the things and people
we don't like, to accommadate a
little more for those things we
consider bitter, to make the fun-
demental grassroots change in
the attitude we hold in dealing
with fellow human beings. The
time for just sympathizing with
the need for peace, just ap-
preciating some of thise peace
movements over a cup of coffee,
is soon to be over.
It is the time for all of us to take
to correct and easiest step toward
peace and amity in out daily
lives, at home at every business,
at every corner of the world. We
must transform our minds to ac-
commodate love for our enemies
and to make the step to make
friends with a witty neighbor.
Let us realize that, as Mahat-
ma Gandhi said, "an eye for and
eye makes the whole world
blind," but a sense of love and
amity by every human being for
every fellow human being can
make the whole world lovely and
lively.
-Ashis Saha
April 16, 1983
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Schultz is misdirected
To the Daily:
Secretary of State George
Schultz is on a stampede to
acheievehpeace in the Middle
East. The effort, however, is
more likely to incite war than
bring about peace, because the
way it is being done is wrong.
Schultz is in a tremendous rush
to start his peace campaign by
getting a autonomous Arab state
established quickly on the West
bank. But allow an autonomous
Arab state to exist on the West
Bank-inside the heart of
Israel-before Israel has
achieved peace with all her Arab
neighbors would be suicide for
the state and the Israelis well
know this.
Only after her Arab neighbors
have given Israel peace, and that
means real peace, with commer-
cial exchanges, cultural ex-
changes and tourist exchanges,
can Israel be ready to negotiate
having an autonomous Arab state
inside her borders.
Schultz is hell bent on
achieving a West Bank set-
tlement first, then solving the
problem of peace between Israel
and her Arab neighbors. -It is a
totally wrong approach to the
problem.
Either Schultz does not realize
this or he ignores it but, in doing
so his stampede to impose his
kind of peace in the Middle East
certainly will not bring about
peace and may result in another
war in that area. -Ryman Olken
April11, 1983
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