NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1984
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Soviets deny military buildup
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union yesterday dismissed assertions by the United States that the Soviets were engaged in a massive military buildup as "slanders" and "hackneyed inventions" and said Washington was planning to launch and win a nuclear war.
The charges, made in an editorial to appear today in the Communist Party newspaper Pravada and carried yesterday by the official news agency Tass. The report issued Tuesday by the Pentagon detailing Soviet military strength
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the only objective behind the Soviet arms buildup was "world domination."
THE PRAVDA EDITORIAL, said the report, titled "Soviet Military Power," which is in the process of being published.
"typical examples of slanders, of hackneyed inventions and falsifications."
For example, the editorial said, the Pentagon called the launching of a new Typhoon class submarine an "inadmissible growth of the Soviet military," but it is clear that the United States has five missile-equipped submarines of the same class.
Likewise, Praveda said, the United States has 15 aircraft carriers. "Unlike the United States, the U.S.S.R. has no strike aircraft carriers."
Soviet carriers, it said, "are a means of combatting submarines and do not pose an immediate threat."
Pravda said that the Pentagon report said that the Soviet Union was startling. It says Russia is a threat.
"There are certainly no proofs to support that claim, only a pair of mysterious paragraphs and meanless photographs. That is all," it said.
Meanwhile, Pravda said, "the Reagan administration has clearly spelled out the aim of turning outer space into a base for aggression, spends billions of dollars on these aims in order to make talks on preventing the militarization of outer space."
Pravda said the United States was embarked on large-scale military
"IT IS HARDLY necessary to prove that Washington is engaged in preparations for nuclear wars — limited and protracted ones — and intends to be the first to use nuclear weapons and banks in calculation to win a victory." it said.
In a recent speech in Washington, President Reagan, "again explicitly declared that the United States intends to continue the efforts from a position of force." Praveda said.
Pravda said the report had been aimed at misleading the public.
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity founder Lech Walesa traveled to a prison near the Soviet border yesterday to greet a former union official in custody. The two men led a triumph in Palm Sunday procession in Gdansk.
Walesa leads Palm Sunday rally
Former internees and political prisoners also rallied at a church service in Warsaw, where they distributed an open letter to the government requesting better treatment for the regime's jailed opponents.
The prisoner released in Braniewo, near the Soviet border, said 10 months ago he was jailed for part in a rotating hunger strike for 3% months to protest their treatment.
Wales drove to within 5 miles of Soviet territory to welcome Andrzej
Mielczanowski, a former Szeczin shipyard union leader, as he walked
Mielczanowski, arrested the day after martial law was imposed in December 1981, was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to organize a workers' revolt against the military takeover that shut down Solidarity.
HIS PRISON TERM was shortened as a result of last year's amnesty for most political prisoners. Mielczanowski, who said he had lost 40 pounds in prison, said the Branewicz and had been fasting every other day.
Walesa and Mieleczanowski drove together back to the Baltic port of Gdansk, where they carried crosses in a Palm Sunday procession at St. Brigida's Church before a congregation of 4,000 people.
The Rev. Henryk Jankowski, pastor of the church and a close friend of
Wales, linked the spiritual message of the day, one week before Easter, to Solidarity activists' efforts to keep trade自由 the spirit of the banned free trade union
"Let the triumphant march of Palm Sunday also be a triumphant march of Solidarity, so that the picture of the war will continue forever," Jankowski said.
"Let us go forward with our heads held high and the cross upraised. No one can take away our freedom, no more how many prisons there are," he said.
FORMER PRISONERS and internees gathered at an evening mass in Warsaw where they circulated copies of a petition to the Sejm, the national parliament. They asked the deputies to vote for more favorable treatment for political offenders and pledge an end to "revenge, brutality, terror."
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