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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1963
Goldwater Ties A-Treaty to Cuba Policy
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WASHINGTON—(UPI)The Senate today overwhelmingly rejected 75 to 17, Sen. Barry Goldwater's major reservation to the nuclear test ban treaty and cleared the way for certain ratification of the historic pact with Russia tomorrow.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., formally challenged the Senate today to put America's Cuba policy to the test by making the nuclear test ban treaty contingent on withdrawal of Soviet forces from the island.
Goldwater's proposal was challenged at once by Sen. Jacob K Javits, R-N.Y., who told the Senate its adoption would have a very grave effect, driving Khrushchev back into Mao-Tse-Tung's arms. . .
GOLDWATER, the leading GOP presidential contender in public opinion polls, called up his reservation to the treaty as Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., dropped four other proposed restrictions to the pact.
Goldwater's reservation would postpone the effectiveness of the nuclear pact until Russia had removed its entire military base from Cuba under UN inspection. It marked the major hurdle for the treaty, which is assured of ratification tomorrow.
The Arizona senator made it clear he will vote against the treaty with or without this reservation. But he
made a strong plea to senators who plan to back the treaty, which bars all but underground nuclear tests.
"IF YOU must vote for this treaty, then, in your nation's name and in the name of the trust your nation has placed upon you, demand at least this single, honorable, appropriate and meaningful price," Gold-water said.
"Such a moment may not be ours again. God help us if we cannot claim it now, in the cause of peace and the name of freedom."
HE TOLD JAVITS he would not have offered his proposal if he did not think there was a chance the Russians would bow to it and pull their weapons, warheads and personnel out of Cuba.
Goldwater said the Soviets twice promised to remove their forces from Cuba, and President Kennedy said last year that we would take every step short of war to accomplish exactly this sort of removal. He said his reservation is a step far short of war.
Responding to a suggestion by Javits that such a restriction might hurt Premier Khrushchev in Russia's dealing with Red China, Goldwater said his proposal merely asked that they keep their word.
He rejected Javits' suggestion that adoption of his plan would spell the death knell of the treaty. Goldwater said, "No-I can't buy that."
HE ASKED.
"Are we so afraid of our position on Cuba that we dare not put it to the test? Are we so convinced that the Soviet will never honor that position? Are we actually saying that they have, in fact, no intention of truly seeking to ease tension? Then why this treaty at all?"
Dodd told the Senate he would not press his four proposed restrictions in view of assurances by President Kennedy and the fact that one is to be adopted in another form.
BUT HE ADDED that following tomorrow's treaty ratification he will offer a resolution calling for periodic reports from the senate preparedness subcommittee on the status of U.S. underground testing, the only type permitted by the treaty.
The preparedness group already has served notice it intends to monitor the future test operations to see that promised safeguards are carried out.
Dodd and Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, both declared their support of the treaty in senate speeches. Dodd said the good in it outweighs the bad and there is no practical alternative to ratification.
MOSS, in effect replied to his colleague from Utah, GOP Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, who opposes the treaty and contends the fallout threat has been exaggerated.
Moss also took a slap at Sen. Barry Goldwater's offer to commit po-
calling all "Frosh Hawks"
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"I will not seek sensationalism by claiming motives which override threats of political oblivion. This is a time to do one's duty and forget political advantage."
litalic suicide if need be to oppose the treaty. Without naming the GOP presidential contender from Arizona, Moss told the senate;
MOSS SAID the Japanese, who felt the first two atomic bombs, have the best description of radioactive fallout—shi no hai or ashes of death.
Members of this body face a choice, he said. They can favor conserving the first, small ray of light, to pierce the deepening gloom of many years. Or they can condone an intensification of that darkness, regardless of how more densely flecked it becomes with ashes of death.
Moss said new figures of fallout of radioactive iodine hitting Utah provide shocking evidence of the terrible unknowns that can exist in the nuclear field. He said a new U.S. public health service study has been prompted by the fact that Utah and Nevada have been exposed to high levels of radioactive iodine.
Senate leaders also were confident they had the votes to beat down all remaining efforts to attach reservations.
RATIFICATION IS assured when the senate takes a final vote on the pact tomorrow. With a two-thirds majority required for approval, 81 of the chamber's 100 members already are committed to support it.
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